Across the country, parents are preparing this week to send their children back to school, spending hundreds of dollars on books, uniforms and cold cuts for brown bag lunches. Another key back-to-school purchase for many families is a new home.
As more and more people have discovered, the Emerald Coast is a great place to live and work year-round; Walton County’s full-time population has grown by 11.8% in the past five years, and Destin’s by 10.4%. That growth has brought lots of new schoolchildren to the area, so naturally one of their parents’ first questions when choosing a home is, “How are the schools?”
In many cases schools are even more important than neighborhood amenities, proximity to amenities, or even price. Fortunately, both Walton
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