For rankings they have used 12th grade enrollment during the 2021-2022 - https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings |
They consider all four years of student SOL data not just the senior year. Weather a school should be included in ranking at all, is determined by if that school has at least 15 students in 12th grade. So this data includes 2025 freshman admitted without merit criteria. "This is the count of public high schools that had a 12th grade enrollment of 15 students or greater, or otherwise had sufficient enrollment in other high school grades, during the 2021-2022 school year to be analyzed. " |
Correct but in case of TJ, I was saying they used just 2022 Seniors data |
So, why adding more Black and Hispanic students worsens the ranking? It should make the ranking better if your logic is right. |
Spot on. What is with the perverse obsession with a national ranking? |
It is sufficiently represented based on the stem interest being expressed by black and hispanic students. Out of 2600+ applicants, just 260+ or 10% are black and hispanic (whereas for most competitive travel basketball tryouts in NOVA, 75+% of applicants are black). If the stem interest is lacking, where does one find additional recipients to grant the offers to? |
For ranking TJ at #14, they used seniors data from year 2021-22 when there was less diversity than it is now. Going forward rankings should be better since the new policy admitted more blacks and Hispanics than before. |
The SOL data includes freshman. |
https://www.fcps.edu/news/offers-extended-thomas-jefferson-high-school-science-and-technology-class-2028 Blacks, Hispanics, Low income - about 27% Class of 2028 offers extended to the following: Asian – 57.27% Black – 3.45% Hispanic – 7.45% Economically Disadvantaged – 16.36% Two or More Races – 6.18% White – 25.45% Multilingual Learners – 6.18% |
Sorry, low income of 16.36% includes whites, asians, and also few blacks and hispanics. Not all 10.9% of blacks and hispanics are low income. Thanks for your generosity, but give us some credit for the prosperity we achieved, we are all not poor. |
So, if diversity mattered, why TJ ranked #5 last year and #1 the years before LOL |
Competitive basketball tryouts in NOVA are not anywhere close to 75% Black. You don't know what you're talking about. |
They made changes to the algorithm to include Equity Rating - https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/why-did-my-schools-rating-go-down/ Equity Rating The Equity Rating is designed to measure how well a school serves disadvantaged student groups. The rating includes two kinds of data: 1. How underserved students are doing academically, compared to state averages for all students, based on student progress (growth), state test scores and college readiness in the case of high schools and 2. Gaps between how a school’s underserved student groups do academically and its student body as a whole. This shows how well the school is educating disadvantaged students compared to non-disadvantaged students at this school, and how that compares with other schools in the state. You can read more about our Equity Rating here. Bottom line: If your school’s Equity Rating went down, this probably affected your school’s Summary Rating. |
TJ Admissions process needs to incorporate a way to enroll meritorious Black and Hispanic students, not just any student from bottom middle schools. Could a math and science evaluation test perhaps do that? |
if you havent noticed that, it is likely that travel team wasnt widely sought after and competitive enough. |