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[quote=Anonymous]I noticed an odd thing while looking up the new GreatSchool ratings in MoCo.  Some schools in MoCo have a disproportionate number of boys enrolled.  Often, they are better regarded schools, although there is no clear trend that I could determine.  It jumped out at me during a casual glance at our elementary school, and became more pronounced as I looked up the schools along the 270 corridor.

There is no way to make a table in DCUM, so this is a little cumbersome, but each line will contain:

Name of school...% boys
Ashburton ES...52%
BannockburnES...53%
Barnesley ES... 58% (compare to Cold Spring, another magnet - much more pronounced)
Bethesda ES... 55%
Bell's Mill ES... 49%
Beverly Farms ES... 52%
Bradley Hills ES...52%.
Burning Tree ES...57% (wow - that is out of 497 students!  Not a magnet! should be closer to 50/50)
Carderock Springs ES...51%
Cold Spring ES...53%
Diamond ES... 53%
Dufief ES... 50%
Fallsmead ES... 51%
Farmland ES...54%
Luxmanor ES...49%
Potomac ES...52%
Rachel Carson...49%
Richie Park ES...49%
Seven Locks ES...48%
Stone Mill ES...50%
Travilah ES...47%
WaysideES...53%
Wood Acres ES... 53%
Wyngate ES... 51%

High Schools:
Walt Whitman  50%
Walter Johnson 52%
Churchill 53% (did they get extra boys through COSA from Einstein?)
Wootton  50%
QO  50%
Northwest 50%
Einstein HS 46% (where did all the boys go?)
Seneca Valley HS 50%
Blair 51%, despite having the STEM magnet
Blake 43% (where are the boys?)
Northwood 50%

Do parents with talented boys in the family try harder to move to the top-rated schools?  This does not seem to be related to sex-selection in pregnancy because several schools with the highest representation of cultures that traditionally value boys over girls have nearly 50/50 ratios (i.e. Stone Mill ES is 50:50 and is plurality Asian).  Casual glance at Silver Spring elementary schools reveals that many have 48% boys or less; I ran out of steam compiling a list.

Any ideas?  Does anyone who knows stats better than I do want to run a regression model with number of students included to see if this could be happening by chance?  How come higher performing schools appear to have more boys, whereas lower performing schools seem to have more girls?  We know from national trends that generally girls do better on standardized tests, so this is not a case of girls underachieving.  I suspect there is selective movement of boys to higher rated schools because families prioritize their educations.  Any other ideas?[/quote]

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