re: Does anyone live in Ocean Springs, MS or familiar with the area??

I graduated from St. Martin, and the school's adress is in Ocean Springs. SM is a community that's pretty much split between OS and Biloxi. There is the Gulf Hills neighborhood on the Back Bay which is nice. Elvis and Judy Garland had summer homes there. Across the street is Windsor Park which is also a nice clean cut neighborhood. Both of these neighborhoods are probably the nicest in the area.

Vancleave is a little up the road and isolated from much of the coast, but there are very nice and new neighborhoods being built up there.

If you have children and are deciding where to send them to school out of Vancleave and SM, SM is the much better school, and is one of the top performing in the state. That's if you don't want to send them to Ocean Springs.