Having been through public school in the U.S., I would not send my own child to one if I had any other choice.
And people I know went to many bad public schools.
That’s almost as much as the median home in America. So assuming you already live in the median home, you could send your kids to private school, or you could buy a house that’s twice as expensive.
Where I grew up, the median home is less than the national median, and the public schools are pretty good.