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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I can't speak to your school district specifically, but I do ed. research on achievement gap data (mostly for Latino kids, but the same trends apply).

In general:

achievement gaps track much more closely with SES than they do with race/ethnicity, but there is a very tight correlation between race/ethnicity and SES, *especially* in urban areas.

kids in at-risk* groups do better in schools where there are fewer numbers of at-risk kids. The worst outcomes are for poor kids in schools with high poverty populations in poor neighborhoods.

If I were you, I'd aim for the "better" middle class school, assuming that there's enough diversity in that school that your kids won't be one of only a few black kids in the class.

*I personally would not class a middle class black kid as an "at risk" kid, fwiw (and honestly, I really dislike the term as applied to individuals, anyway)[/quote]

OP was specifically referring to Yorktown, which is not urban and is high SES. I'm not sure your post was helpful to OP.[/quote]

OP I am in the Yorktown pyramid. I think you may find the SES of the subgroups' scores you looked at is very different from yours. We switched our kids to privates for smaller classrooms and a differentiated coursework. We knew our kids could  work at a higher level than the school was provide and we wanted to have more say than deal with bureaucracy. Both my kids had been in the gifted program but I felt they could do and should be exposed to more than what was being offered. We are much more satisfied with peer group social dynamic and the uniform academic commitment. [/quote]

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