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[quote=Anonymous][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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It’s a lot to ask a parent to take a gamble on a school like Lee. It should be up to FCPS to take concrete steps to improve the school by moving West Springfield neighborhoods to Lee, getting rid of IB, or adding an Academy program. Until then, people should look for something elsewhere if they can.[/quote]

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