Niche Named GNPS as Best Public School Districts in NY State and Third in Nation

Niche.com has named Great Neck Public Schools as one of the best school districts in New York State and the third-best in the US for 2022. 

Great Neck South High School

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The annual Niche.com Rankings published a list of “2022 Best School Districts in America” in September. According to their “rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users.” Niche.com has named Great Neck Public Schools as one of the best school districts in New York State and the third-best in the US for 2022. 

A parent left a comment on Niche saying, "I am a product of this school district. Graduated, moved on, started a family, and moved back to raise our children. I specifically would like to commend their school safety and security program." Many people have this same cycle, growing up in the Great Neck School District, going to the city and finding a job, and then coming back here and raising their children. And their children follow the same cycle as their parents.

Factors that are considered for judging a school's ranking on this list include but are not limited to:  academics grade, teachers grade, culture & diversity, parent/student evaluations, sports grade, and student-teacher ratio.

Great Neck School District offer the best public schools in New York for each grade level in Pre-K through grade 12 and beyond. South Middle School (#3) and North Middle School (#4) enhance the ranking of GNPS among more than 1,400 institutions.

The Best Public High Schools list includes but not limited to South High School (#6) and North High School (#13), among more than 1,400 public high schools. Niche.com has also ranked North High, South High, and Village School as the best high schools in New York City for STEM education.

Elementary schools and Kindergarten also complement the list of best public schools. E.M. Baker School (#3), Lakeville School (#12), and Saddle Rock School (#17). Notably, 82% of students in E.M. Baker School are confident in math and reading.

According to the Center for Public Education, kids spend over 900 hours per year in school. Like Tara Westover said in her memoir “Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.” 

Education is the most powerful investment in our future and the most essential part of our family. Contact Lin Pan Realty and find your home for children's future!

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The house that launched a billion packages: Birthplace of Amazon hits market

The house outside Seattle where Jeff Bezos launched the company is on the market for the first time since 2009

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Before HQ2 or even HQ1, Amazon was headquartered in a 1,500-square-foot Craftsman home in the tony Seattle suburb of Bellevue. Now that house is for sale.

The owners of the three-bedroom house where Bezos famously started the trillion-dollar company in 1994 are asking $1.5 million for the keys to the landmark, according to the Seattle Times.

Bezos was only renting the home for a few months when he drew up articles of incorporation, and a later owner remodeled the 65-year-old house and attached garage in 2001, but that didn’t stop listing agent Pat Sullivan from shining a spotlight on its history with a fat arrow pointed at the garage door noting “The birthplace of Amazon.”

The last time the house went on the market in 2009, it sold for $620,000, or $720,000 in today’s dollars, according to the Times. Its current $1.5 million asking price is still well below the $2 million median home price in the area, as a surge of Amazon workers has helped boost Seattle-area property values.

Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man with $132 billion to his name, now owns a waterfront estate in nearby Medina valued at $76 million. In 2017, he dropped $13 million on a four-bedroom home adjoining his 12,000-square-foot Spanish-style mansion in Beverly Hills. [Seattle Times] — Alex Nitkin