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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yorktown has more in common with Mclean and Langley than WL.  It clearly is the best neighborhood high school in Arlington and ranks among the best in the Washington suburbs.  WL is fine, maybe even better than most, but it's not Yorktown and never will be.  [/quote]

And yet the white students at YHS have lower test scores than the white kids at W-L...

If by 'in common' you mean a 'mean girl environment', entitled kids, drug culture (I am a Langley grad) than I agree.[/quote]

FWIW even the black kids at Yorktown have lower test scores than at W-L:

2015 SAT average scores:
Yorktown
White:     1830 (277 kids)
Black:      1264 (14 kids)
Hispanic:  1578 (40 kids)
Asian:      1714 (26 kids)

Washington-Lee
White:  1862 (140 kids)
Black:  1414 (32 kids)
Hispanic:  1545 (66 kids)
Asian:  1605 (39 kids)

Yorktown is getting better test results than W-L only on its Asian kids[b] and (but only very marginally) its Hispanic kids[/b].  Everyone else is doing better at W-L, black kids most of all (a whopping 150 points better, which is like a 20 percentile difference).[/quote]

LOL.  A 23 point difference for Hispanic kids is only "marginal," but a 32 point difference for the white kids is simply huge.  Way to be objective.[/quote]

The Black and White test scores at W-L test blow away YHS similar groups.  Hispanic not a huge difference--I'm guessing W-L pools from poorer sections--apartment/subsidized housing.  [/quote]

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