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[quote=Anonymous]Think of the GS rating (especially ES as it's the most localized/granula) as more of a proxy for neighborhood SES (which of course also often maps to racial diversity).  If you prefer living in a more diverse area with higher FARMS rate amongst your peers, then you probably aren't going to find that at an 8-10 GS school.  But many (not all) 5-7 GS schools are great schools where an UMC class will do just as well as their peers at the 8-10 GS school a few miles up the road. You can dive into the ratings a bit to see if the breakdowns.

For example, Haycock Is a 10 GS, Lemon Road just down the street is a 7 GS.  The test score breakdown for white kids is slightly higher at Lemon Road than Haycock in Math and Science (and 1 percentage point lower for English)... but let's not split hairs, basically they're the same.  But Hispanic kids are struggling at Lemon Road by comparison (and there's many more of them)... which also tracks with the higher % of low-income students at Lemon Road.

So there's a bit more diverse environment, and thus a lower aggregate GS rating, but seems like the peer-to-peer comparison of performance at these schools is pretty much even... GS is really measuring SES makeup, not school quality per se.  That said, the higher SES schools do probably have a bit better funding for after-school enrichment opportunities, etc. that wouldn't be reflected in SOL test scores.[/quote]

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