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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right now there are 1345 TJ students who live in Fairfax County, or about 68% of the total TJ enrollment.

There is still stratification correlated with wealth and ethnicity, as can be seen when you break the 24 high school pyramids in FCPS into four contiguous groups.

Group #1 (Langley, McLean, Madison, Marshall, Oakton) - the five wealthiest pyramids in total send 498 kids to TJ.

Group #2 (Herndon, South Lakes, Chantilly, Centreville, Westfield) - five UMC pyramids that include three with a high concentration of Asian families and in total send 360 kids to TJ.

Group #3 (Fairfax, Woodson, Robinson, Lake Braddock, West Springfield, South County) - six UMC pyramids with fewer Asian families that in total send 264 kids to TJ.

Group #4 (Falls Church, Justice, Annandale, Lewis, Edison, Hayfield, West Potomac, Mount Vernon) - eight pyramids with more poverty that in total send 223 kids to TJ.

If each of these groups were sending the same number of students to TJ, it would be around 336 students per group.  That would not mean the same number of students per pyramid, since different groups have different numbers of schools and different schools have different numbers of students.  But it would be closer to what FCPS apparently wants to accomplish with the admissions change.  It will be interesting to see what these numbers look like in another couple of years, by which time all TJ students will have been admitted under the new system.  And, as noted, it may also have implications for the enrollments at some already crowded high schools.  [/quote]

Have you looked at the FARMs rates for Herndon and South Lakes? While there are some UMC and MC families at both schools, they are not UMC schools. [/quote]

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