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[quote=Anonymous]"test scores" are largely reflective of the racial and economic make up of the student body.  The test scores as an average on a whole school do not tell anyone whether that school is great or terrible.  If there are lots of poor or minority kids at a school, yet certain non-minority or non-poor groups are doing just as well as the schools with the "good" reputations, then it isn't accurate to lable the former school as an undesireable/worst school in Ffx County.  If some groups are excelling, then it can't just be that the teaching is terrible.  Yet, that is pretty much what people are generalizing when they make these lists of the "best" schools based on overall test scores.  SHOCKING that school with 70%+ white kids in high income neighborhoods are at the top of the "best" schools list.

You have to compare apples to apples if you want to make a fair comparison.  Compare the test scores of black kids at two schools or white kids at two schools or FARMS kids at two different schools.  Then, you are at least making an attempt to judge the caliber of the school rather than comparing who has the wealthiest/whitest student body.  [/quote]

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