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[quote=Anonymous]People pay a premium to live in a neighborhood that has a highly rated school cluster.  In Kensington for example, a similar house in the WJ school district would sell for around $150k more than one in the Einstein neighborhood and a house in the BCC zoned part of Kensington would sell for perhaps $200-$250K more than the one in Einstein.   For many middle class people, their homes are their main source of wealth and so yes people will be concerned about any redistricting plan that threatens to reduce their home's value.  The county should also consider whether a massive redistricting that causes upper middle class people to leave or makes them less likely to move to Mont. County would reduce state income  tax revenue and property tax revenue.  That would impact school funding.
Also one of the posts in the thread on WJ's situation had some statistics on the SAT performance of FARMS kids in a "W" school and a nearby DCC school and while there is a difference, they are quite similar. Another post on the same thread noted that white students in Einstein and WJ had nearly identical SAT scores (approx. 1800/2400) which is suggestive if you assume that race is correlated with socioeconomic status.  In other words, you can physically move the kids around the county in all kinds of ways but unless you address the underlying differences in the socioeconomic status of the kids it is really hard to close the achievement gap.  That is not a task that MCPS can tackle on its own.
Here are the stats from the WJ thread:
"Here are the Highest Mean SAT Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing Scores for students who qualify for FARMS (Class of 2015):
MCPS: 1386/2400
Einstein 1392/2400
WJ: 1463/2400
BCC: 1330/2400"
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