I personally wouldn’t live there. School quality directly reflects the quality of the town itself. There are plenty of nicer towns around Hartford.

My goodness. I gotta say Manchester rocks socks. As a guy who grew up in east Hartford and did a 10 year stint in enfield.. this town is great. My caveat is that I don't have kids. But Manchester now reminds me of EH when I was coming up, I know the schools aren't great, but the fact that there's so much diversity really helps kids see the full spectrum of American life.

Those aren’t that rare either. There are a lot of railroad crossings like that

B for Barbri.

The why is it so short yet I feel like I'm gonna die in here tunnel

As a whole I would say it's midpack. But if you look at a lot of those academic ratings, they're probably not much below the average for the state in general, because very few schools come close to meeting any of those targets.

But let's put it this way, if I had kids in public school, and $500 K to spend on a really nice house in Manchester, or a much more modest house in Avon, West Hartford, Simsbury or South Windsor, I would choose any of the latter towns first.

Why do we need that? We've had rainfall this winter. The rivers and ponds are fine.

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These are all over the state

Thanks. I didn't think it'd be too hard to find hockey in the area.

You're special, there happy?

You get out of school what you put into it and also what the parent accepts/expects from their kid.

Why would they be?

Here's all the details about our state park system's river camps: https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/State-Parks/Camping/River-Camping-Information---CT-State-Parks-and-Forests

Can’t camp in most. State parks, a few allow camping. None allow fires.

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Brother has lived in Manchester since we were kids. For the high property taxes, the school system is absolutely dreadful. Like two of the elementary schools are ok/fine but the middle schools and high school keep getting worse seemingly every year. Another good friend was a PE teacher for a number of years at Illing who moved away last year and one of the reasons for him moving was the constant fist fights and admins refusal to discipline or suspend/excel frequent violent offenders.

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Manchester, East Hartford is like Ansonia, Derby, South Stratford, South Hamden

I wish..😆

It’s cute or whatever

Do you know what it’s called buddy?

I haven't lived there but live and grew up in Tolland County and currently work in Manchester, so I'm very familiar.

While the quality of schools is unfortunately not the best, for a dedicated kid and supportive family, the student will do well. The town itself is fine with plenty to do and a variety of neighborhood types.

There's one in Griswold to my knowledge

Near southington but I wouldn’t mind a drive