How is Deer Park Area and Schools???

How is Deer Park Area and Schools???

Re: How is Deer Park Area and Schools???

Anybody?

Re: How is Deer Park Area and Schools???

Deer Park has its good and not so great area's. Just pay attention to your potential neighbor. I don't know about school's, sorry

Re: How is Deer Park Area and Schools???

Deer Park Schools are so so to not so good.

Re: How is Deer Park Area and Schools???

Deer Park schools are fine. I graduated in 1999 and I they weren't bad then. I hear they have improved over the last two years too. About half of the school district's teachers retired so there is some good young blood teaching now...espeically in the high school. There was a large turn over there. I posted about Deer Park a while ago. I'll see if I can find my post and bump it for you. It talks about which sections are the nicest and the one section that is considered bad. I grew up on the Dix Hills line and it's very desirable.

Re: How is Deer Park Area and Schools???

Here...my post was on LIfamilies under topic called "the babylons"

I grew up in Deer Park and it's not bad at all. Of course you have your parts near Brentwood/Bay Shore that I would stay away from, but every town as one bad part. I live on the Dix Hills/Commack line and that neighborhood is beautiful. It's very desirable for middle income families because it's affordable, the area is nice, taxes won't kill you and the school district isn't bad.

I graduated in '99 and the school district's scores weren't the greatest. It was because we had so many old teachers that were waiting to retire and they sucked. Over the last several years more than half of Deer Park teachers retired and we have some good young blood teaching now. The scores have improved. We have just as many students that go to Ivy league and other great schools as other towns in the babylons, lindenhurst, etc. The district will also be getting a lot of money if the Tanger Outlets plan goes through in 2006.

Deer Park is seperated into 4 sections that are divided by the LIRR and Deer Park Ave. The northeast section, is where I lived and it's nice. The "west side" which is the south west section of deer park is FILLED with families and is affordable (this is the closets section to N. Babylon). I would stay away from Bay Shore Rd. and houses around it. It's kinda sad being that it's 2005, but I find most the minorities are in a section of their own (this south east section of town). This is where Deer Park gets the bad rep for gangs and violence. I guess years ago, minorities were only showed houses in this section and it kinda stayed that way. Not that other parts of Deer Park don't have minorities, it's just that part is very concentrated.

Personally, N. Babylon isn't any different than Deer Park. In fact my friends from N. Babylon always thought Deer Park was a nicer town. FM me with any questions.

Message edited 6/21/2005 4:06:19 PM.