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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sick of people saying that some schools are better than others because of the damn test scores.  Every school has good teachers, and poor teachers, and a few outstanding ones.  In FCPS, higher ratings are for the most part due to socioeconomic levels of the student population.  Get real.[/quote]

+1 and agree

The FCPS School Board commissioned a study to look at what they call the "tipping point" for free and reduced lunch (FRL) percentages. The study concluded that FCPS schools with greater than 20 percent poverty (FRL) are much less likely to meet performance expectations than those with less than 20 percent poverty. And, once poverty levels at a school reach 40 percent or more, FCPS schools are unlikely to meet expectations for school performance.
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So substitute GS/US News ratings for FRL/FARMS percentages, and "better" for "meeting performance obligations," and you basically end up in the same place.

However, the challenge is that, if FCPS thinks it should treat such a finding as a basis to redistrict a 10% FRL school and a 30% FRL school with the goal of creating two 20% schools (as opposed to such identifying a tipping point with respect to meeting current performance standards), [b]it may just end up with two 25% FRL schools[/b], because parents from the first school end up moving to nearby school districts or counties or send their kids to privates.  [/quote]

Agree, although some would argue this is making the best out of a bad situation.[/quote]

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