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[quote=Anonymous]I had no idea, but the OP is right.  The drop-out rate at Wakefield for the students scheduled to graduate in mid-2011 was over 25%.  That's the highest of any high school in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church or Loudoun, according to the Virginia Department of Education.   Other schools in the area with high concentrations of students from challenged backgrounds - such as TC Williams in Alexandria, Annandale, Falls Church and Stuart in Fairfax, and Park View in Loudoun - all have higher graduation rates.   It may be that there's only so much that a school system can do for some of these kids, but the statistic does suggest that Arlington has allowed one of its high schools to be the region's worst, at least by one measure of achievement.

Arlington could change that statistic in a heartbeat by revising the current HS boundaries.  It's not clear that would necessarily help the students who struggle, but it might change some of the current perceptions about South Arlington schools.   The longer-term implication is whether, as South Arlington gets redeveloped (as seems inevitable), it will attract families who'll send their kids to the public schools or, instead, a growing numbers of residents without children, like some gentrifying DC neighborhoods.   [/quote]

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