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[b]Niche ranks Blair as most diverse high-school in the state for one,[/b] and imagine their rank is based on public data.
https://www.niche.com/k12/search/most-diverse-high-schools/s/maryland/

According to Great School's Poolesville has few Black or Hispanic students and is over 80% white and Asian. 
https://www.greatschools.org/maryland/poolesville/940-Poolesville-High-School?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=Permalink#Students
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Sure, but it's a pretty silly measure.

[i]Factors Considered
Factor	Description	Source	Weight
Student Racial Diversity Index	A high value indicates a very racially diverse student body.	U.S. Department of Education	60.0%
Parent/Student Surveys on Culture & Diversity	Niche survey responses scored on a 1-5 scale regarding student culture and diversity at the school.	Self-reported by Niche users	25.0%
Economically Disadvantaged Percent	Percent of students classified as economically disadvantaged.	U.S. Department of Education	10.0%
Gender Diversity	Percentage of students belonging to the most represented gender (closer to 50% is better).	U.S. Department of Education	5.0%[/i]

Also, I'm always amazed at how DCUM both lumps Asian-Americans in with whites and splits Asian-Americans off from whites, depending on which approach better supports the specific argument. Last year's Poolesville HS data are: 30% Asian-American, 6% black/African-American, 8% Hispanic/Latino, 51% white, 6% two or more, 6% FARMs, 14% ever FARMs. Yes, Poolesville HS is whiter and much less poor than the MCPS high school population overall (not surprising in a high school where a test-in magnet program accounts for over half of the student population and the home-school area is rural and disproportionately white). But to say that Poolesville HS lacks diversity is just as absurd as to say that without the downcounty SMACS magnet program, Blair HS would be South Central LA c. 1995.

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