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[quote=Anonymous]You need to look more closely at the specific schools. An 8 is generally going to be all affluent kids (or a magnet school) and we'll resourced. I think there's a lot more variability in the middle.

My kids go to W-L, which gets a 5. It has about a third low-income kids. It also offers a ton of advanced classes, both AP and IB, many student activities, lots of kids take the advanced classes and do well in college admissions.

In contrast, a friend who lives in another part of VA has kids at a GS4 HS. They have a small program for advanced kids but there is no expectation that all kids will go to college. Limited activities (recently cut the theater program). It's also only about 1k students so the peer group of ambitious college track students is small. For one of her kids, very self motivated, that worked out fine. She was a big fish in a small pond and did extremely well in college admissions. But her other child is coasting and now saying maybe she just won't go to college.[/quote]

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