We lived near a high school (a block away) in South San Jose (very suburban). At first it was okay. It increasingly got worse.
Kids started parking in front of our house so they could walk to school. One year it got so bad that we tried getting the school involved. I guess the school had cut down on the number of parking spaces. We lived on a corner, and the kids would park on the corners of the street and block all visibility. I was nice and told them that they were not supposed to park on the corners and that they could be towed. I put notices on the cars for weeks. The kids were snotty and started cussing me out. Then, I started having the cars towed.
At the time, I had 3 children under 5 years old. The neighbors across the street had 2 children under 2 years old. Luckily our neighbor was also a cop.
After that year, parking was never an issue. The kids also got nicer. If they did park in a corner, we would just tell them the situation and they would apologize and move.
The other thing that I noticed about the school is that they increasingly had the PA system on during lunch time. What really bothered me is that they would play rap songs with cuss words in them. If they are going to have loud music, they should at least play nice music.
We finally moved. We needed a larger house, and my husband didn’t want to spend lots of money on that house with all the school problems.
After we moved, the school installed lights at the football field for night football games. I’m glad we’re not living in that house because I think the Friday night games will make that area loud, trafficky, and probably increase vandalism and drinking in the area.
Your point illustrates why I would NEVER buy a home near a school.
Even if I had school aged kids.
Too much hassle.