It's nice to live in an area where so many families value education so highly.
(If you were a little closer to having your kids enrolled, I might issue some cautions about that kind of setting and the dark side of this kind of pressure for very high performance, but I won't-- there IS an up-side to it, as you've astutely observed.)
I live in an area where the public high school that DD should have gone to is like that, as well. Many of her friends did. While parents are
involved in such things, certainly-- not all of them are pushing a lot of afterschooling to make it happen, either. There really are public schools which provide music, art, and STEM enrichment at very high levels like this. They start early (3rd-4th grade, usually) and yeah, by high school the kids are pretty amazing.
Enjoy!
