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[quote=Anonymous]OP - you appear to be an education-focused parent. Probably wouldn't be on this site if you weren't. Think about what happens when you and the other people like you flee schools like Lee. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If your student does not attend Lee that shrinks the cohort just a bit more. No doubt that FCPS is responsible for some of the drop in Lee's performance - pupil placements out and boundary changes. I believe the cohort at Lee of high-performing students is still large enough for your student to have peers. Is it really large ? No. In the end your student is an individual and not a cohort. It really depends on how motivated they are as an individual.

I wouldn't pay too much attention to SAT scores since they are just a single number average. They don't even bother to provide any real statistics - like minimum score, maximum score, normal distribution, top 20 scores, etc. They literally provide a single number average for the different ethnic groups - hardly a way to judge how any one person may perform.

Interesting that Great School scores for a number of schools dropped this year. Will people moving to the area now avoid schools like Woodson - which dropped to a 6 on Great Schools. Local residents may still consider it a good school if not a very good school, but will new residents know this (or will their real estate search automatically filter out any school below a 7)? This is how things start to go down hill in a highly mobile area.

Not sure if you currently live here or are looking to move here. I would not use DC Urban Moms as a good source of information. I would talk to families who actually have students at the school. My kids are doing quite well there. Is everything great?  Certainly not, but I think you will find issues of one type or another at every FCPS high school.
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