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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you were destroyed in the last thread where you brought this up, the relative size of the two school systems is pertinent.

FCPS has 180,000 students. APS has less than 20,000.

Excluding TJ (a magnet school that pulls from all over, including Arlington) that's 289 for the 8 FCPS schools you listed compared to 57 for the two APS schools on the list.

That's one NMSF for every 623 FCPs students and one for every 350 APS student.

So, just stop. You've embarrassed yourself. Try to limit yourself to one ass-kicking a week, mkay? Thanks.

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80% of TJ comes from Fairfax so there is no legitimate reason to exclude it.  And, even if you did, the top neighborhood high schools in FCPS consistently outperform the Arlington schools, whether it's average SATs, the number of NMSFs, or US News ratings.

Arlington can't even punch, much less punch at its weight. [/quote]

Of course you exclude TJ. That's like saying Boston's the best city in America cuz of Haaahvard. TJ is, by definition, an outlier.
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You can't exclude TJ in this comparison because it's pulling so many Fairfax County students from other high schools. 80% of those FCPS students could be around 580 students from FCPS that received this recognition. It's a significant number. To be accurate you'd have to know exactly which school system each NMSF at TJ came from, but to estimate you could just take the numbers of NMSF times the percentage of TJ students from each county.[/quote]

Oh, FFS.  Half the applicants -- literally -- were Asian. It's self-selecting and an outlier. Besides, interest in TJ is waning -- applications were down 14% last year.

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