The schools I am zoned for are A rated schools. There has been a lot of building in my area, so they built new schools. They are A rated because they excel in the FCATS. I live in a relatively wealthy area, so my kid wouldn't go to a school where the gangbangers are zoned ....BUT, the "cheapest" elementary is 6,000 per year...not including all the fees they hit you with and the mandatory "donation" to the church. It's more expensive than I thought...I could swing it...but there goes the annual world traveling I wanted to do with her.... I'd have to get the annual florida resident rate to Disney instead (not that she would mind, I guess)