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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids’ NOVA elementary didn’t break the top 100 and has higher reading and math scores than Ross.  Yikes. [/quote]
Stop this nonsense. Non of us would live here if that was the case. I could get a house for the money in NOVA and here I live in a condo. I'm here for the schools or rather for the kids and families the schools have attracted.
I have had kids in two elementary schools in NW, and I'm in the classroom now in elementary school #3. These kids show up to school being able to test just as high or even higher than any private school kids or a kid from Nova (or top countries in Europe, I'd know).
They just took their first test and every kid passed and was excited to take it again since it was on the computer. They are so ready, willing and overall so darn smart. Though I don't care for that many tests, it was a nice change for the day and most kids loved it. These kids are easy to teach which shows up in test scores.
There was a study years ago that showed DC high SES kids outscoring all high SES kids in the country, and yes even the ones in SF and NY. This is not surprising at all considering that the government is here and the embassies. Not sure why somebody from Nova thinks their kids do better than the high SES kids in DCPS. [/quote]

But sadly, the study you’re referring to was comparing white kids not upper SES. Yes, white kids in DC perform the highest amongst white kids in the country. Likely because they are the richest.[/quote]

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