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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because FCPS pays for in school SAT day now so a whole bunch of students who would have otherwise not taken the SAT take it. Of course scores went down.[/quote]

+1. Some of the low-SES schools also offer free SAT test prep classes now too, further encouraging kids who otherwise would never have taken the SAT. It's a net positive for kids even if the mean scores are lower. Who cares about mean scores anyway? It's your kid that matters.
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Some of the schools that have seen big declines over the past years are high poverty schools like Falls Church and Lewis.  That's consistent with the notion that getting more kids who might not otherwise have taken the SAT to take the test will depress the average scores for test takers.

On the other hand, the only high school in FCPS whose SAT scores have increased over the past six years is Justice, another high poverty school. And Langley also had a 47-point drop over the past six years, even though most Langley kids would take the SAT regardless of whether FCPS was paying for it.

So there are probably a mix of things going on - subsidizing more kids to take the SATs, less focus on the SATs when schools are (or were) test-optional, and changing demographics within particular school boundaries.  However, even if some of the decline can be explained away, the overall academic trends within FCPS aren't positive. [/quote]

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