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Minority Numbers at STA?
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Anonymous
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I have been quoted the stat for the overall number of minorities at STA as being over 25%.
I have been told that this number is actually misleading. I have heard that those numbers actually rise in the high school years when many athletes are recruited. This is what I've heard, so don't flame the messenger. Is there any truth to this? In other words, up until the high school years, the school is not very diverse? Can anyone shed any light on the actual statistical break-up of these "minorities" (%AA, %Hispanic, %Asian). |
Anonymous
| Just about every private school says they have 25% diversity. But you have to check it out for yourself. When we looked at STA's it didn't seem any less diverse than most of the other schools (except for maybe GDS and Edmund Burke), and I think it's probably more diverse than Landon. |
Anonymous
Not to hijack your post, I wasn't aware that STA (or any other independent school in the area) recruited athletes. From where -- other independent schools, public schools? |
Anonymous
| I'm not sure if this qualifies as "recruitment," but I know a number of talented minority athletes up and leave their non-sport obsessed private school around the end of middle school to join one of the sports obsessed private schools. I haven't been directly involved in this, so I'm not sure whether anything like "recruitment" as it is commonly understood takes place. |
Anonymous
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To respond to earlier posting on diversity, it also varies from year to year and division to division. For example, lower school at Landon is more diverse than other divisions.
also, schools do recruit athletes. Such as Georgetown prep and others |