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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Loudoun county is currently the richest county in the U.S. according to U.S. News.

No reason they shouldnt have more top schools with their fancy gifted programs and all...[/quote]

If the rankings had anything to do with elementary gifted programs, perhaps they would. But alas, that is not the criteria on which US News and World Reports has based its [i]high school[/i] rankings.

I think you make a fair point in general that with a higher average HHI, Loudoun brings in more money as a county. However, you can't look at average HHI for an entire county and make assumptions about the demographics of the high schools in that county. You can, however, look at the ranking of McLean and Langley and know that wealth has a lot to do with why the graduation rates are so high, why the AP exam passage rates are so high, etc. because the vast majority of those students have parents who can afford tutors, test prep, and those schools have fewer ELL students. Loudoun does not have any equivalent high school like that in our county, where there is such a concentration of wealth that the number of kids from low income are so low.[/quote]

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