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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are the totals for last year the least diverse schools in 22207 for Asian, Black and Hispanic, but excluding Multiple:

Discovery: 96
Jamestown: 61
Nottingham: 79
Taylor: 87
Tuckahoe: 67

We are at one of those schools (one of the less-diverse ones even within that group), and I personally know more well more than six families who do not present as white. The least diverse, Jamestown, is 81% white, so nearly a fifth of the school identifies as something other than just white. [/quote]

Remember APS filled I believe Jamestown, Discovery and possibly Nottingham by moving country wide VPI preschool programs there. So if those numbers include preschool those schools look more diverse than they are, so the upper grades are whiter than the stats.[/quote]

No, they didn't. Nottingham has no preschool, and Jamestown and Discovery have Montessori, not VPI. Further, since Montessori is split between low-income and non for the program as a whole but not per school and seats are assigned based on geography, the Montessori students at Jamestown and Discovery as disproportionately *not* low-income.

Further, even if they did, the civil rights stats cited above are for K-5 only and exclude preschoolers, so even if there were VPI students there, they would not be included in the civil rights data. Montessori kindergartners are, but not preschoolers[/quote]

You know all of you who are arguing about the numbers in OP's post not matching up, need to just stop with the red herring.  OP may have misremembered the numbers told to her or may have changed them.  She intentionally did not identify the school.  She was trying to avoid turning the discussion into one about the school, and directing it to her specific problem for her child.  Arguing about the school demographics and statistics does not help OP with her problem and the noise just makes it harder to have a helpful discussion about OP's situation.

Give it a break, folks.  Try to get back to the point about helping OP with her situation rather than trying to identify the school and prove that she made a mistake in the numbers.
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