I had the benefit of being in both one of the worst schools in a region and one of the best schools in a region. The worse school had a fight every _single_ day with kids bringing in knives. An unreasonable number of kids were expelled and sent to juvi. To contrast that the better school had 2 fights in a year, numerous clubs, kids who actually paid attention in class and teachers that actually cared. I found out their scores on greatschools.org and everything really began to make sense.

You should get your kid in a better school using any method you possibly can. I mean it. There's a reason Zuckerberg went to Phillips Exeter Academy and Gates went to Lakeside. It doesn't have to be private, just a better ranked school. Any better ranked school.