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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mclean, marshal, langley, madison are rated hire than george mason. Mason used to be better but the quality of fairfax and bigger budget changed this.[/quote]

source please???   
The Jay Matthews challenge index for 2011 http://apps.washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge/schools/2011/list/local/
puts George Mason at number 5.   On this ranking list McLean is 12 Langley is 15, Marshall is 46 and Madison is 19.

I can see considering McLean and Langley to be the equivalents of GM, but Marshall????????   I've never heard anyone consider Marshall to be higher rated (except PP).
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Every since all the expensive mcmansion of the last 10 years in 22182 marshall has DRAMATICALLY changed.

Marshall "silver ranking"
http://education.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-high-schools/listings/virginia/george-c-marshall-high-school

George Mason "honorable mention"
http://education.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-high-schools/listings/virginia/george-mason-high-school[/quote]

hmm-- I think you need to look closely at the methodology of how this ranking is done-- http://education.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2009/12/09/methodology-americas-best-high-schools

I think you are misreading the rankings to think that Marshall got a silver and Mason got an honorable mention, thus Marshall is the better ranked school.

Specifically- to get a medal you had to have your disadvantaged students performing better than the statewide statistical average.

The honorable mentions are schools that scored high enough on college readiness to get a gold medal, but didn't meet the first two steps of showing that their disadvantaged students are performing better.

I don't really know but I would guess that Mason is hurt in this ranking by the fact that it has very few disadvantaged students.

On this ranking Mclean is also an honorable mention- but with a slightly lower college readiness index than Mason.[/quote]

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