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- A culture of apartheid and failure at TC Williams (where one in five students don't graduate)
-- Two middle schools that have never been accredited.
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Not quite accurate:

"All Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) were fully accredited in the latest results with the exception of T.C. Williams High School and Jefferson-Houston School."

So both middle schools were accredited this year, and have been for the past few years as far as I know.

"T.C. Williams met benchmarks in all categories with the exception of the graduation completion rate. The Graduation Completion Index score for T.C. was 83; a score of 85 is required to meet the benchmark. Thus T.C. Williams was provisionally accredited. "
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The on time graduation rate at TC Williams is 83%--so more like 1 in 6 than one in 5 (and that is really heavily affected by their high ESL population). Now--that's still not good news, but Arlington, often touted on these boards for it's schools has a rate of about 85% from the latest state stats.

ACPS has plenty of problems (including all the board, the superintendent, the defacto segregation of the schools) but let's not make up ones that aren't true.

For the record though, the only one that's currently K-8, J-H is the worst elementary school in the system:

"Jefferson-Houston received accredited with warning status in the categories of English, history, and science."
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Wrong, TC Williams had an on-time graduation rate of 79% last year. So, if it was 83% before, it's slipped sharply.
See http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/graduation_completion/cohort_reports/index.shtml

My bad if the middles got themselves accredited. That wasn't the case in the past. Good for them. I see GW was accredited with a warning in Math, so...

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