New homes Deciding where to live is a tangle of financial and social judgments. And some factors are more important than others. Yes, a builder can erect a new house on a lot in a century-old city neighborhood, but that's an exceedingly uncommon choice. Building houses is cheaper by the subdivision on empty land, and city dwellers often look for other suburban amenities, too. Suburban schools .
Schools lead that list of suburban attractions.
Standardized test scores in suburban schools typically outshine those in Fort Wayne. Those schools draw their students from expanding suburbs. Officials at Fort Wayne Community Schools question the validity of test scores and point out that higher average scores are less common in areas with greater poverty rates. Certainly, high-achieving children emerge from every school system, but housing patterns indicate builders and buyers flock to suburban schools. A map of development since 1970 provides an example.