I'm aware of School district quality tools and looking at quality of area but I am having a hard time deciding which area to focus on for pursuing leads with so many options near me.

Know your market, in particular, school districts.  

Same city or school district mostly.

But by and large any decent (Katy, Cy Fair, Spring or other) school district the total hit on property tax is going to be 3%, or $4200/yr, $350/month.As homeowner's insurance is unregulated in TX we have the highest rates in the country.

Do not buy in a Historic District.

How is the school district?

Schools around it are nothing special, it's right on the border between 1 better and one worse district, sadly it is technically in the worse district, but the high-school is good and there is a french-immersion school which is also good.

School district funding would be completely replaced with a new system and a new paradigm, though I won't elaborate more on this now.As for the proposal in North Dakota- from what I have read here, it does not sound like it was thought out very well, and we don't yet have all of the reforms in place that we need to make it a practical reality.

But within the city of Atlanta, I wanted to find out how strong rental demands are for a particular city, district, school district or even subdivision.

housing might even be similar among some / many of those areas, but other things like school districts, taxes, and localized economy are all different.