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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They used to provide a breakdown of SAT scores by ethnic group for each school on the individual school profiles. Then they stopped doing that but put out a press release with the average scores at every high school. Now they aren't even doing that.  They don't want you to focus on the disparities among schools.  But you can submit a FOIA request if you're interested. [/quote]

Or maybe they are focusing on handling the teacher shortage and need to lighten the tasks they do.  SAT scores are not as important as they once were and fewer students are opting to take them.  It's harder to make sense of the testing data given that.  But sure clog them up with more FOIAs and create admin workload that then justifies the need for admin.[/quote]

They get a standardized report from the College Board every year that has the school-specific SAT averages as well as disaggregated data. It requires very little effort to prepare a table with a heading, a row for each school, and columns for the math, verbal, and total scores. Assuming someone submits a FOIA request for the information, it also requires little effort to attach either the report from the College Board or the summary that FCPS staff undoubtedly has already prepared for internal purposes to an email.

You may or may not be right as to whether SAT scores are declining in importance (it depends on the college or university, and some schools that had gone test-optional may have changed their minds), but that's not the reason why FCPS isn't publishing the school-specific averages. [/quote]

Do your kids attend a school that you think is on the lower end of the Fairfax average?[/quote]

Or maybe just another of the many FCPS schools with SAT scores that decline every year?  [/quote]

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