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[quote=Anonymous]Great Schools has been tweaking their formulas to somehow accurately rate schools. They got a lot of criticism for just reflecting test scores. But they are not there yet. I don't even know the GS ranking of my son's school. I'm sure it's under 5. Who cares? The school in the town we left was a 4, and it was a fantastic school.

People just looking for a good school and not even bothering with the ethnic makeup might see the final ranking score and be segregating themselves without even realizing it. Unfortunately, far too many people look at these rankings and think they then know what the good schools are. I've seen too many lists in magazines of the "best" schools that are just lists of test scores. Test scores don't make a school good. In fact, if a school has hight test scores, it might be an indicator that it is mostly upper middle class white people and therefore the school might actually be bad at providing a diverse experience, or providing a proper education to people from different backgrounds than an upper middle class white majority. [/quote]

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