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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/133-Washington-Lee-High-School/ reveals a score of 5 out of 10 due to high farms and lower test scores for wl.

Yorktown has a better 8 score but still lags fairfax county schools which typically have a 9 or 10.
 Http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/arlington/135-Yorktown-High-School/

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If you do the research behind the test scores through looking at the score breakdown on the Greatschools site you will find that the scores for all three Arlington high schools are quite similar. For Yorktown and W-L, scores among White, Black and Hispanic students are nearly identical. Asians perform more poorly at W-L, which is the largest score discrepancy. The scores for Wakefield are also very similar. People on this site tend to put Wakefield down, but the scores are similar to W-L and Yorktown.

The Greatschools numbering system is a bit flawed for these reasons. There just isn't a huge discrepancy among the local high schools' scores. Schools with fairly similar results could have a 5 point rating difference on Greatschools. For years, Yorktown was a 6, W-L was a 5, and Wakefield a 4. No one really talked about it. Now that Yorktown received an 8 this year, the boosters are understandably excited. I bet the W-L boosters will do the same in a few years when the Greatschools ranking goes up as the percentage of low income students in N Arlington continues to decline. I wouldn't be surprised if Wakefield moved up a spot or two either.

I wouldn't worry about Greatschools. Arlington's historically low GS rankings haven't seemed to affect the real estate market in Arlington, where neighborhoods are full of families, and the schools haven't been this crowded since the 1960s. [/quote]

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