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[quote=Anonymous]You have to start talking to the teachers and the parents who go there.  Step 1:  Ask for a tour and then listen less to what a represtative is telling you and MORE to what you hear or see happening in a classroom as you walk by.  Watch how kids move through the hall or how the teachers talk to their kids and what the teachers' expectations are.  What types of papers are posted in the halls?  Step 2:  Gather intel --  When you are at the local park, you start chatting up the parents.  If the school has an open house (not the kind in Aug., but the kind where the kids show off their art) you go and look around and chat up the other parents.  Do they have a PTA with meetings or with events (reading night, sock hop, craft fairs) -- stop by, listen, ask questions.  A lot of times the principal is at the PTA mtgs.  If the teacher turnover rate is high -- it's a sign that the teachers don't like the administration.  Other parents can tell you if their kids feel safe in class or if the kids are out of control.

And I do think Great Schools is a valuable source of info.  You can get the test statistics for Va. on the Va. Dept. of Ed. site, but it's a much easier presentation on Great Schools.  The overall school rating isn't the end of the analysis... it's the beginning.  You have to look at the subgroups and subject scores.[/quote]

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