There are 5 elementary schools in a very small area of this city (high density apartments, houses, and condo developments). From my house I can drive west 3 miles to two elementary school. And south 2 then another 1 mile to two others and east 6 miles to another and there is a charter school I am not even counting.
I moved my son from his zoned school to a school of choice with a dual language program...but he was two miles from the zoned school and three miles from the choice school. We were lucky.