I would create a balanced scorecard, drafting a list of relevant attributes and assigning weights accordingly. Some factors I'd include:
- Cost
- Probability of being open the next year
- Commute time
- Teacher quality
- Teacher likeability
- age relative to cohort
- flexibility to accelerate
- curriculum
- extra-curricular offering
- class size
- strength of social network (existing and potential)
I'd create 4-point ratings of low to high on each attribute and assign a range of corresponding values to the indexed score to build a total score.
