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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For purposes of DCUM, SES is not just about money, but the willingness and ability of parents to support and advance their kid's academics.  Two tenured math/English professors at GMU won't be rich by DCUM standards, but boy will their kids have plenty of support that many others won't.  So a neighborhood ES around GMU might have a student body that scores very high on standardized tests and have fewer disruptions in class due to at-home influences, relative to the rest of FCPS.  This also leads to stiffer competition in this neighborhood for outcomes that have geographic quotas or quota-like admissions (e.g. TJ admissions).

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We're in one of those neighborhoods - lots of GMU professors at birthday parties my kids attend and indeed those kids are well supported at home - and yet I don't think DCUM considers us as anything more than mid-SES.[/quote]

You might be in a bimodal neighborhood - lots of professors and also lots of blue-collar workers so you will have lots of kids at both the right tail and left tail.

DCUM skews heavily right-tailed, so you might be comparing your neighborhood to e.g. McLean Hamlet, which has doctors/lawyers making $500K+ HHI living next to tenured Georgetown professors making $350K HHI. Those neighborhoods definitely have lots of right-tailed scores.  But I would say that the professors' kids in your neighborhood face similar "competition" for coveted AAP/TJ spots - they are competing with the right-tailed kids, not the left-tailed kids.

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Very few blue collar workers in our neighborhood. The occasional lawn service owner, I guess? It's just that our high end is more like $350K HHI instead of $500K HHI.[/quote]

Are you sure you know the occupation of every household?  Methinks there are more blue-collar workers than you might think -a plumber and a bedside nurse could easily bring in $200K combined.

But occupation and/or income is secondary to the conversation about SES, insofar as DCUM AAP is concerned.  The point is that there are ESs at which many families have the ability and willingness to provide their children with extracurricular support that  bolster these children's academic resumes.  If you are looking at high SES neighborhoods, you will need to deal with the pros and cons of that environment.

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