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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the %age of Asian-Americans in the state and what is the %age in these schools?  I think three things determine how good the schools will perform in a very oversimplified way. You can usually find 1 and 3 in school reports.  Not easy to finde
1) SES  (FARMS students belong in low SES households)
2) Parents education level  (Or better still - Mom's education level)
3) %age of Asian-Americans[/quote]

Stuyvesant is heavily Asian but also heavily FARMS/low SES with mothers with low educational attainment.[/quote]

The interesting thing about Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and the rest, is that the same low SES Asian families also spend the money on outside private schooling.  This is largely because of the legacy of the Chinese Imperial Examination system, that was entirely meritocratic and existed in Korea and Vietnam as well.  Anyone from any class could sit for those exams and gain government employment.  Its rather interesting from a cultural perspective that its legacy still is present today after existing for around 2,000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination

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