SAT Scores in FCPS
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Anonymous
"Madison and Marshall also beat McLean in Math." >> Not True , They did not beat mclean in category. McLean High 606 620 593 1819 Madison High 598 605 585 1788 Marshall High 587 596 591 1774 |
Anonymous
More important than race is family income. It would be very interesting to see average family income at each school graphed against the scores. Other than TJ, the schools with the highest scores are in some of the wealthiest areas. It also would be interesting to compare the average scores of the top ten percent at each school. |
Anonymous
PP was referring to SOL pass rates, not average SATs, the topic of the thread. |
Anonymous
TJ has the second-lowest percentage of low-income students among the high schools in FCPS, behind Langley. The biggest feeders are the AAP centers at Carson, Longfellow, Rocky Run, Kilmer and Frost, which also serve higher-income areas. |
Anonymous
| Teachers at Langley are excellent. Many students also get tutored, which makes teachers and the school look good. HHI does matter. |
Anonymous
True, but TJ is already selecting kids who do well on standardized tests, so I wasn't including them in my comment. It would be easier to come up with a figure for average family income using zip codes at other schools. The other schools essentially take whatever kids live near them and some schools are surrounded by families with higher average incomes. My own child goes to TJ but our assigned high school has a much higher percentage of low-income families than the high schools near the top of this list. My child has very high SAT scores, higher than the average for TJ, so if my child were at his assigned school, those scores would slightly raise the average at that school. I don't know if that means some schools lose out more than others when their good students go to TJ. Ten or twenty fewer high scorers at Langley doesn't make much difference to their average, but that many fewer at a school lower on the list can make at least a little bit of a difference. I don't think the schools themselves have that much effect on how kids do in these tests, smart kids will do well on the SAT no matter where they go to school. |
Anonymous
| I can't imagine anyone seriously looking at high school SOL pass rates as an indicator or metric for any measure. |
Anonymous
The schools at the top of the list lose more students to TJ than those at the bottom of the list, so it's hard to say which schools would get a bigger boost if the TJ students were back at their base schools. I guess it's also open to discussion whether those students would do quite as well on their SATs if they had attended other schools. |
Anonymous
Many people do because the tests are given for all grades where as sat are for a few. |
Anonymous
They eventually affect graduation rates, but otherwise it seems crazy to look more favorably on schools that put a heavy emphasis on SOLs. |
Anonymous
| The measure I look for on all these tests is how did my kids do. That tells me more than any high score average score ever would. |
Anonymous
Peers matter, so most people want their kids at schools with higher scores. The kids aim higher, whether it's SATs, course selection, or college applications. |
Anonymous
Don't you think TJ is pretty well diversified? |
Anonymous
| These scores are only part of the picture. An increasing number of students are opting to take the ACT instead of the SAT. |
Anonymous
Relatively few take only the ACT and about 3-4 times as many students take the SAT as the ACT. About 75% of FCPS students take the SAT. |