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Still no evidence that Blair academic performance without the magnet would be any better than any other DCC school.[/quote]
I can't give you numbers that don't exist. [b]I think the robust non magnet course offerings suggests there are plenty of good students outside the magnet program. I think TPMS and SSI are very good middle school and those students feed into blair. In addition blair is the most popular choice in the DCC[/b]. They get more applications than any other dcc school[/quote]
I stated above... check out test scores for URM at Blair compared to other DCC schools.  That should give you a pretty good comparison of non-magnet Blair compared  to other DCC HS.[/quote]

Listing courses gives no measure of their rigor or content.  Blair gets more applications than any DCC school because Blair promotes the achievement of magnet students as if it is representative of the rest of the school.  It is not.  The bulk of Merit Scholars, for example, are from the magnet.  If there was any honesty to the administration at Blair, they would let their school be compared to other DCC schools in a reasonable manner by releasing data excluding the magnet.  [/quote]

Ok so here are some numbers:
Blair has 2966 students.  23% White, 15.5% Asian, 25% AA and 32% Hispanic and some MU etc.  
Also 36.5% FARMS and 15.5% ESOL which I would agree makes high academic achievement challenging even with good teachers and a healthy offering of rigorous coursework outside of the magnet program.
The magnet has 415 students which is 14% of the school population so first of, the majority of the 38.5% White and Asian students at Blair are non magnet.  
Regarding the SAT scores by ethnic group and how this compares to the other DCC schools here are some numbers.  It is comparable to Einstein for BL students but Hispanic students seem to do better at Blair.  There are also more clubs and after school activities at Blair.  Lots of reasons why so many DCC families put Blair down as their first choice even if their kids are not magnet bound:
[b]Blair[/b]
All: 1743,  AS: 1984,  BL: 1460,  HI: 1487,  WH: 1971
[b]Einstein[/b]
All: 1563,  AS: 1437,  BL:  1461, HI: 1416,  WH: 1821
[b]Kennedy[/b]
All: 1318,  AS: 1391,  BL: 1279,  HI: 1275,  WH: 1692
[b]Northwood[/b]
All: 1403,  AS: 1506,  BL: 1313,  HI: 1361,  WH: 1585
[b]Wheaton[/b]
All: 1366,  AS: 1445,  BL: 1336,  HI: 1298,  WH: 1713

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