Rank the Top 10 NoVa High Schools
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Anonymous
...of rich kids. Versus not so rich and poor. |
Anonymous
Lake Braddock is #11, so if you remove the Richmond school (#4) you get the top ten high schools in northern VA. |
Anonymous
Might as well stack them by F/R lunch rate. Seriously, this is stupid. Show me a poor school that is beating the odds and I will be impressed. |
Anonymous
W-L is 29% economically disadvantaged, 58% minority |
Anonymous
DP. If you stacked by f/r rates some of the schools that didn’t make the latest US News cut (Madison and Yorktown) would be included and some that did (Marshall and Washington-Lee) would be excluded. But, even then, you’d need to recognize there are more rich kids at Marshall and Washington-Lee than at many other schools in NoVa with lower f/r rates. |
Anonymous
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1. TJ
2. The school my house is zoned for 3-9. Don’t care 10. The school I think is probably better than our school that I want to disparage |
Anonymous
Love the smack down. |
Anonymous
But the really rich schools aren’t ranked, right? |
Anonymous
APS lets W-L but not Yorktown offer both AP and IB. So W-L gets transfers from Yorktown and makes it to #10, while richer Yorktown doesn’t get transfers and isn’t ranked. Slow clap. |
Anonymous
I agree with this. Except #2 is a secret, because I don't want everyone else to know about it and move in bounds and change it. |
Anonymous
Perhaps W-L is punching above its weight. Or perhaps it benefits from transfers from Yorktown and Wakefield seeking out the IB program. If you have a number of students transferring in exclusively for an advanced program then it will probably improve school performance, despite a raised F/R lunch rate (and not exceedingly high - remember, Stuart not far away in Fairfax, has 67% F/R lunch rate). Not trying to slight W-L, but there are a lot of factors involved. Some schools are stuck in a poverty trap because education first families avoid them. This causes them to sink further every year. |
Anonymous
I am PP and a Madison Band Parent. I was impressed by your show last year. (and chuckled when in the BOA Newark Regional, when TJ was anounced as a finalist, I heard a cry of "Nerds!" from some anonymous band |
Anonymous
Not credible -- if you look at their methodology, they disqualified several schools on technicalities. If you have a small cohort that does poorly (in Madison's case, the only disadvantaged kids are also ESL kids, and they were disqualified. It is a small cohort, but enough to bring it down). |
Anonymous
| Exactly what happens with Fairfax High. The lower income cohort effects great school ratings but Madison and Fairfax are obviously still great schools. |
Anonymous
Looks like a really solid list. Really, the #5-10 slots could be interchangeable with about 10 different fcps high schools. |