[LM_Guy]

Probably the nearest one is in San Marcos Texas...

[driftdiver]

I'd suggest Tampa, might be a long commute though.

[Red Badger]

Try The Alamo. It's not occupied right now..........

[demkicker]

The Alamo Heights School District is a good one as far as public schools are concerned. That would be my pick, hands down.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Phoenix, AZ. ;)

[Mikey_1962]

Everything is named the Alamo:

Ice cream stands, cleaners, plumbers...

[demkicker]

Alamo Heights ISD

[Vaquero]

San Antonio Rose

Bob Wills


Deep within my heart lies a melody,
A song of old San Antone.
Where in dreams I live with a memory,
Beneath the stars, all alone.

Well it was there I found, beside the Alamo,
Enchantments strange as the blue up above.
For that moonlit pass, that only he would know,
Still hears my broken song of love.

Moon in all your splendor, known only to my heart,
Call back my rose, rose of San Antone.
Lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart,
Speak once again of my love, my own.

Broken song, empty words I know,
Still live in my heart all alone.
For that moonlit pass by the Alamo,
And rose, my rose of San Antone.

Broken song, empty words I know,
Still live in my heart all alone.
For that moonlit pass by the Alamo.
And rose, my rose of San Antone.


And rose, my rose of San Antone.
And rose, my rose of San Antone.

[speed_addiction]

I would suggest Boerne, Texas just west of San Antonio. It is a small town, quiet with nice parks and schools. Downtown San Antonio is only about 20-25 minutes away when it isn't rush hour.


What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.

[El Gato]

For San Antonio proper, and a few of the other towns in Bexar county, the best two districts are Northside, and Northeast. Northeast is a more expensive area, in general, but the Northside school district is considered just as good. The state of Texas has their ratings, for whatever they might be worth, on line.

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/index.html

In general anything outside loop 410 and north of the I-10/US-90 line is fine, outside, or near loop 1604 is even better. Even the school districts to the far southeast aren't bad.

If you have any specific area, and thus specific schools, in mind, FReep mail me. My wife is chair of a teacher education program at a small college in Texas, so she has her own sources. She/we don't live in San Antonio, but we have in the past, and hope to retire there, and may move back before we retire. We will probably have custody of our great nieces now almost 8 and 6 1/2, so we are looking at school districts down there as well. (Our daughters have a JD and MA respectively and the MA is working on her PhD.

There's some good information on San Antonio linked at http://www.swri.org/6swsa/live/live.htm

Northside ISD

Northeast ISD

Texas School District Locator

St. Mary's San Antonio links, including School Districts

[davetex]

Alamo Heights, very nice place. Good schools. I grew up on Normandy Street off Broadway.

[LM_Guy]

Here is the offical ratings link

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2005/countylist.srch.html

just type in "Bexar" under search criteria....

[Rightly Biased]

New Braunfels is nice

http://www.nbcham.org/

Or even Seguin

http://www.seguintx.org/

Depending on where you would work in SA both are about a 25 minute commute and have great schools.

I have lived in this area most of my life and choose to live outside of SA and always know its there

[MikeD]

I just moved here a little over three years ago, so I don't know if I'll be much help. I live on the west-northwest side of town, and I'm pretty happy. Decent school, close to work, reasonable housing costs. There's no state income tax in Texas (yay), but property taxes are high. Sales tax in Bexar County is 8.125%. You can get honest-to-goodness sweet tea in about half of the restaurants, although as a Maine-iac that may not be so important. You can't throw a rock without hitting a mom-and-pop Mexican place, a Bill Miller barbecue, or a Valero gas station.

Many have called San Antonio the world's largest small town, and I can see what they mean. Despite over 1.2 million people (now the seventh largest city in the nation), most of the city feels pretty homey. Also, as long as you don't want to go anywhere around rush hour, you can get from one side of town to the other in less than half an hour.