For the Voice.

At the risk of spinning this totally off the subject, I'm offering the following.
While students may wish to move to a different school for the athletic reasons, ultimately it is a family decision. I say family because I believe the successful education experience is shared between the child and parents. Many factors play into that decision and while athletic reputation helps, if you are in pursuit of the education benefits provided at some of the private schools, it becomes secondary.
Having lived in South Carolina and moved around the country with my job a private education for my family seemed to be the best option. When you are transient by nature, you don't have the time to learn which school districts perform better both academically and athletically.
We recently moved back and were fortunate to find Pinewood Prep. Having lived in South Carolina before, I was familiar with BE and PG, and we compared these schools before making our decision. For us, athletics were a very small piece of the puzzle. I say we were fortunate because the education experience for my son has been tremendous, and he was able to play on a state championship team at a very young age. Something he would not have been able to do if we were part of the SCHSL.
I'm not sure of the dates for BE to be playing in the public sector, but I do believe they were playing football at least, publically in probably the mid 70's. My high school played them in the playoffs before I played football which began in 79.
All of this to say, normally parents/families have many reasons for picking schools, and probably most often, it's not athletics.