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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]West Springfield/Lake Braddock/Robinson pyramids.[/quote]

Why?  Lake Braddock and Robinson are very large secondary schools.  Lots of competition going on there, even if there are some other schools with higher test scores. [/quote]

West Springfield, Lake Braddock, and Robinson are all schools that are basically uniformly middle class/upper middle class. There's a bit of racial/ethnic diversity, but economically the kids are all basically normal kids.

For the secondary schools, the size works in both ways. There's plenty for kids to do and it's big enough that there's no dominant "culture." It's much more kids finding their niches. Academically all three are strong enough schools without TJ craziness (note -- even though all three are close-ish to TJ, very few kids actually go to TJ because they are perfectly happy with their home schools.  It's not a pressure cooker area.

It cuts both ways. Kids aren't going to be the tippy top. It's a place where people are fine with their kids going to Tech or JMU or VCU. It's not UVA or die around here (though plenty do attend UVA). [/quote]

That's quite self-serving.  Kids from families with more or less money - and those schools are about 10-16% low-income - are "normal," too.

Also, a large number of kids from Lake Braddock, which has the local AAP center, apply to TJ every year.  They are just admitted at substantially lower rates than at some of the other middle school feeders to TJ.  Perhaps that supports the notion that it's a lower-pressure area, but surely most of the kids who took the test would have gone to TJ if they'd been admitted.  [/quote]

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