Many school districts are increasingly offering their students options that break the geographic link between residential location and school attendance. This study considers the consequences of non-local school attendance on neighborhood perception. Specifically, do parents of children who attend schools within their neighborhood feel more socially connected to their neighbors and is school location related to perceived spatial boundaries of that neighborhood? To address these questions, I use "Making Connections" survey data from low-income neighborhoods in ten different cities. Using GIS, descriptive statistics, and neighborhood fixed-effects regressions I find that there are no clear demographic differences between parents based on school location, but residents who have a child in a local school report living in closer-knit community and knowing more of their kid's friends. Residents also appear to adjust the size and shape of subjective neighborhood boundaries in the direction of the school their child attends.