Northern Virginia Magazine - Top NoVa High Schools

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Anonymous wrote:Marshall at the bottom where it belongs.

Out of 77 HS in school divisions included in the rankings Marshall is in the top 25.

What do you have against Marshall anyway?

[Anonymous]

I am intrigued by the chronic absenteeism rate- so Woodson has a 25% rate but 97% graduated on time? those numbers don't seem to make sense

[Anonymous]

Woodson has the highest chronic absenteeism rate by a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am intrigued by the chronic absenteeism rate- so Woodson has a 25% rate but 97% graduated on time? those numbers don't seem to make sense

Maybe it’s very easy to graduate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am intrigued by the chronic absenteeism rate- so Woodson has a 25% rate but 97% graduated on time? those numbers don't seem to make sense

There was a lot of covid quarantining in 2021-2022. Maybe they were much stricter than other schools about enforcing quarantines. The 2022-2023 rate is 14.3%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am intrigued by the chronic absenteeism rate- so Woodson has a 25% rate but 97% graduated on time? those numbers don't seem to make sense

There was a lot of covid quarantining in 2021-2022. Maybe they were much stricter than other schools about enforcing quarantines. The 2022-2023 rate is 14.3%.

1/4 of VA schools had chronic absenteeism rates over 25% last year --so many that the VA DoE was considering "pausing" it as a measure for accreditation. Southwestern VA in particular had abysmal chronic absenteeism--over 46% of the schools had chronic absenteeism rates over 25%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am intrigued by the chronic absenteeism rate- so Woodson has a 25% rate but 97% graduated on time? those numbers don't seem to make sense

Chronic absenteeism includes a lot of absences that parents encourage (family trips, mental health days, etc.) It ends up covering a lot of high achieving academic students that likely wasn't the point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am intrigued by the chronic absenteeism rate- so Woodson has a 25% rate but 97% graduated on time? those numbers don't seem to make sense

There was a lot of covid quarantining in 2021-2022. Maybe they were much stricter than other schools about enforcing quarantines. The 2022-2023 rate is 14.3%.

1/4 of VA schools had chronic absenteeism rates over 25% last year --so many that the VA DoE was considering "pausing" it as a measure for accreditation. Southwestern VA in particular had abysmal chronic absenteeism--over 46% of the schools had chronic absenteeism rates over 25%.

Yikes. Do they know why? They can't blame "school closures" for that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am intrigued by the chronic absenteeism rate- so Woodson has a 25% rate but 97% graduated on time? those numbers don't seem to make sense

There was a lot of covid quarantining in 2021-2022. Maybe they were much stricter than other schools about enforcing quarantines. The 2022-2023 rate is 14.3%.

1/4 of VA schools had chronic absenteeism rates over 25% last year --so many that the VA DoE was considering "pausing" it as a measure for accreditation. Southwestern VA in particular had abysmal chronic absenteeism--over 46% of the schools had chronic absenteeism rates over 25%.

Yikes. Do they know why? They can't blame "school closures" for that.

I'm not sure they know exactly why it's so bad. It's a relatively poor, rural, and the most predominately white area in the state. I think vaccination rates are really low so you're going to have more covid cases. It also was the area of the state hit hardest by the opioid crisis and that's far from resolved--this may be contributing to kids not getting to school regularly if their parents have addiction problems (of if the HS kids themselves have addiction issues). Being rural with greater distances to travel to get to school may impact absenteeism too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Marshall at the bottom where it belongs.

Out of 77 HS in school divisions included in the rankings Marshall is in the top 25.

What do you have against Marshall anyway?

Who knows. There is a JMHS parent who loves to put Marshall down and harps about IB and the stupid US News rating. It's freaking bizarre. Both schools are good schools. And this list-like every other rating of schools-is mostly a reflection of SES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marshall at the bottom where it belongs.

Out of 77 HS in school divisions included in the rankings Marshall is in the top 25.

What do you have against Marshall anyway?

Who knows. There is a JMHS parent who loves to put Marshall down and harps about IB and the stupid US News rating. It's freaking bizarre. Both schools are good schools. And this list-like every other rating of schools-is mostly a reflection of SES.

Some people go to great lengths to keep the reputation of their neighborhoods higher than others. It's like the adult version of high school kids yearning for validation in popularity contests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marshall at the bottom where it belongs.

Out of 77 HS in school divisions included in the rankings Marshall is in the top 25.

What do you have against Marshall anyway?

Who knows. There is a JMHS parent who loves to put Marshall down and harps about IB and the stupid US News rating. It's freaking bizarre. Both schools are good schools. And this list-like every other rating of schools-is mostly a reflection of SES.

Louder for the people in the back.