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Great! Less people trying to crowd me in my little corner of Bethesda!

Not. Everyone knows student cohorts are stronger in wealthy areas. It's not race, it's money.
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When you say "student cohorts are stronger", what do you mean, specifically? [/quote]

I mean that you are not looking at the appropriate data. The Equity Accountability data is about monitoring lower performing students compared to the general population, and check whether they meet the standards in literacy and math, which are [u]exceedingly low[/u]. It is valuable data for its purpose, but should not be used to say: "Hey look, the eastern part of MoCo is doing just as well as the western part!" Wrong.

What this data set is not showing is the achievement at the other side of the range. Many more students are excelling in certain high schools in wealthy areas than in less-wealthy areas. There are a lot more AP offerings, and more students are taking them, as well as other rigorous advanced classes.

Obviously there are smart and hard-working students everywhere!!!
But more of them are showing what they can do in wealthy areas, because their upbringing and the school atmosphere contribute to their putting in more effort in academics. 
Whether you like this fact (and whether you think that it creates too much pressure and stress on students, for example, or comes with snobbery, entitlement, etc) is besides the point.

It's crucial to read data correctly, people.
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