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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully these buyers do private school or didn't get taken because they didn't look up the horrid schools of 22041 and 22042[/quote]

The 22042 house is zoned for great schools.[/quote]

http://www.greatschools.org/search/search.page?search_type=0&q=22042&state=VA&c=school

The elementary schools get a 4-6 rating.
http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/454-Beech-Tree-Elementary-School/
http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/481-Falls-Church-High-School/

High school gets a 5 rating
http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/496-Graham-Road-Elementary-School/

The middle school is ok at 8 rating. 
http://www.greatschools.org/search/search.page?search_type=0&q=+JACKSON+MIDDLE+SCHOOL.&state=VA&c=school[/quote]

There's a lot more to school quality than test score averages.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

Can you provide another metric or measure?[/quote]

How about looking at the kinds of programming offered and talking to parents, teachers and principals?  The parents in my neighborhood say almost universally positive things about our neighborhood elementary school but the test scores are never going to compare to schools in a place like Great Falls because the demographics are totally different.  That doesn't make it a "horrid" school.

If you're determined to use test scores as a metric, you should be assessing the scores at schools with similar populations (ESL, FARMS, etc).  It's still an imperfect measure but will tell you a lot more about the truly important factors like quality of teaching than trying to compare someplace like Falls Church HS against Langley.[/quote]

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