Reading area ladies

pepomntpat

Please tell me what are the best school districts!  Thank you!

DH and I are back to home searching and are also as most of you know hoping to adopt in the not too distant future. I appreciate your help! 

The Reading area seems to have a lot of homes in our price range and also will greatly shorten our commute!

ericanandy

I know this is a "bit" from Reading but stay away from Pottstown School District.

Owen J is pretty good,

Pottsgrove is okay.

Wilson is pretty good.

?Daniel Boone is where most teachers in the district I work for send their kids.

Oley Valley is good too

Twin Valley is very good

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pepomntpat

Any information on Exeter Twp?

And thank you!

newhomeowner

I'm totally biased since I graduated from and my kids attend Wilson, but I do think it is one of the best.  Also Wyomissing.  I honestly don't know much about Exeter... I used to think of it as more of a "farm" school but that area is growing so much because it's a commutable distance from Philadelphia. 

jjenkins

I don't live there now but I lived there for a year during college and still have friends in the Reading area.  Wilson, Wyomissing, Govenor Mifflin, and Exeter would probably be the ones I would recommend.  There are some gorgeous older homes in the Wyomissing area as well...lots of charm, character.

pookielove

I've never really researched school districts, so I don't have much to back this up.  This is just the impression I've always gotten from school districts from having lived in the area for most of my life. Wilson is generally regarded as the best school district in the county.  Wyomissing and Exeter are very good too.  Also, you might want to look into the Daniel Boone school district. That's a bit farter from Reading than the others, but it's farther East. If I remember correctly, both you and your DH work in the Philly area, so farther east would be better for you.  If you are looking as far east as Pottstown, Owen J Roberts is supposed to be an excellent district.

pookielove

newhomeowner:

I don't know much about Exeter... I used to think of it as more of a "farm" school but that area is growing so much because it's a commutable distance from Philadelphia. 

OMG, this made me LOL   Exeter is definitely not a farm school!  I'm not sure there's an inch of spare land left in Exeter with all the building they've been doing in the past 15 or so years.  No offense meant to you newhomeowner.  I'm sure at one point it was all farm land, but you were right on about the growth in the area. It's all suburb now.

pepomntpat

Thanks so much.  This is very encouraging since it seems we can afford homes in good school districts!  Yay!

angeleyes0507

I am currently in Daniel Boone (keeping our fingers crossed that our house sale goes through!) and we have been looking for months at houses and found one just on the other side of the district.  The school are all state of the art and just rebuilt in the past 5 years.  Exeter is not a "farm school" and I wouldn't send my kid there...just my thoughts.  We were also looking at houses in Boyertown...now that may be considered a little more of a farm school but land is a rarity there too with all that is being built up! 

MillersXing

As long as you stay out of the actual Reading school district you should be okay. We don't have kids yet, but DH works with realtors so he gets good feedback about schools and such.

We're in Antietam which is super small at about 100 kids per class. Between Exeter and Reading district.