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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The demographics between W-L and Wakefield couldn't be more different. Unlike Wakefield, W-L has the support of the the wealthy neighborhoods that surround it. And some of the best elementary schools in Northern Va are in the W-L zone. I would hardly put W-L in the same category as Mount Vernon, Stuart, TC Williams, and Wakefield, etc. Trust me, the families at W-L are not urban pioneers hoping for the best. I've never heard anyone characterize the school as such until now. Whether or not the data supports the perception, W-L has always had a strong academic reputation, and people do in fact move to the neighborhoods for the high school.  SAT scores are well above the state and national averages and the W-L rivals Yorktown for the number for natl merit semifinalists and finalist every year. [/quote]

I'm not the poster who started parsing the demographics of these schools, but the point the other poster was making was that, in some respects, the demographics of W-L and Wakefield are more closely aligned than the demographics of W-L and Yorktown.  That's clearly correct, as is the observation that one thing that differentiates W-L from Wakefield is the large number of "wealthy neighborhoods" in Arlington that feed into W-L, compared to only a few pockets of South Arlington, such as Arlington Ridge, that currently fall in that category.

If you want to go down this path, however, you should know that some of the other inside-the-Beltway schools that are being mentioned also have many wealthy areas within their boundaries.  I don't know the neighborhoods that feed into Mount Vernon well, but the Sleepy Hollow/Lake Barcroft area that feeds into Stuart is as expensive as many North Arlington neighborhoods, and the City of Alexandria, of course, has many expensive areas as well, such as Del Ray and Rosemont.   I think some Arlington posters may not know these areas well, as a result of which some of their comments suggest, perhaps inadvertently, that there's a double-standard at work where the Arlington schools are concerned.    [/quote]

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