What's Happening

I have been having a version of this conversation a lot lately. A client mentions that her daughter's fifth-grade class has nearly 30 kids while the kindergarten down the hall has two sections of 15. A neighbor brings up schools combining grades. Someone asks me what is actually going on and whether it affects home values. These are not small questions, and I do not think they deserve a non-answer. So here is what I actually know, what the data says, and what it means if you