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[quote=Anonymous]I use Greatschools to eye ball things, US News, and even just looking at Wikipedia to see what percent of households in a town have kids under 18. 
I consider the whole pyramid too.

There are some anomalies that great schools doesn’t factor in, at least where I live. For example, I have a kid at the AAP center which is a 9 on great schools and a kid at our base school which is 5 on great schools. I really don’t think one school is better than the other - I think it’s 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other. They each have pros and cons.

It’s probably not “fair” that my son’s two 3rd grade advanced pass SOLs were attributed to the Center - even though I thought he got a great 3rd grade education - I’m sure his K-2 education at the base helped somewhat with that score and the base gets no credit.  I think the test scores at AAP center schools can be inflated due to the fact there was a test based entrance process to attend!

Furthermore our base is an intellectual disability “center” which I think is extremely important for the community yet the school gets no “credit” for that under great schools, and may even get a “penalty” for it, but I don’t know enough about the scoring to know for sure. [/quote]

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