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Reply to "Yorktown vs. W-L High School in Arlington"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More and more parents are moving to south Arlington and sending their kids to Wakefield. I think it's going to be a much more diverse hs in 10-15 years. People don't know/ remember that w-l was considered a really bad school not 20 years ago. [/quote] That's not true I was here 20 years ago and W-L was considered fine. It won the US Dept of Ed Blue Ribbon Award for Eduactional Excellence in the mid 80s. And in the 90s it had good college placement, scores were above state and national average, National Merit Semifinalists every year, and a graduation rate that actually surpassed Yorktown. That was around 1996/7. APS published school brochures every year which highlighted the high schools' achievements. Yes, Yorktown's scores were higher, but W-L was not a "really bad" school at all. I knew APS teachers then who worked the system to send their kids to W-L. Generally speaking, there were no transfers back then.[/quote]
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