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We moved to the Pensacola are just before I went into the 5th grade ('81) and stayed there until I was half way through the 8th grade. The public schools were really bad.

My parents sent me to a private school that serviced everything from kindergarden through college. My grandparents help to pay the $800+/month cost to go to the school. Yes, it was over $800 per month to go to that school in the early 80s. I believe it was well worth it. After that, we moved again and I went to good public schools. The high school that I went to had a huge list of AP level classes and generally had multiple scores of 1600 on the SATs every time it was given.