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11 are going to NOVA, presumably looking to save money before transferring into VA four year schools.  Can't argue with that.  Of the remaining,

20 are going to VA four year schools other than UVA/W&M/Tech (including 12 going to Mary Washington and 3 to JMU)

16 are going to various out of state private and publics that are mostly fine (IU/Bloomington, Trinity U in Texas, Lawrence in WI, for example) although not uber elite.

Plus I need to make two corrections to my original post.  Two are going to Yale, not one, and two are going to Reed, not one.

For a public school that doesn't require testing to get in that still sends two of its 83 graduates to Yale, one to Harvard, and others to Chicago, Duke, Hopkins, Pomoma, etc., plus 13 to UVA or William and Mary has to be doing pretty well.  Outside of TJ, which has stringent entrance requirements, there cannot be a public school in the DC area that compares equally on a percentage basis.  Few privates compare as well either, I'd guess.

For, say, Langley and McLean to compare they'd need to be sending 18 to 20 kids each to Harvard or Yale and nearly 200 graduates each year to highly selective colleges.  They don't come close to that. 
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You have to apply for the HB Woodlawn lottery, so there is some self-selection at work.

Woodlawn stats aren't as impressive as TJ by a long shot.  They do look more impressive, if you extrapolate, than Langley and McLean, which are open-admission high schools in neighborhoods that send far more students to TJ than any Arlington neighborhoods. The two McLean high schools, in turn, have higher test scores and more impressive admissions records than Yorktown and W-L.  No need to ask about how Wakefield compares to those six schools.

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