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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wakefield had lower SAT scores this year than TC Williams, any high school in Fairfax County, and several schools in Prince William.  It may have higher SOL scores than a few of those schools.  
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I wish people were a little more clear when they describe schools as "good" or "not good".  It seems like two different things are constantly conflated -
  a) the quality of the facilities and teaching - I think most people would agree that Wakefield is on par with other Arlington high schools
  b) the socio-demographic make-up - clearly - Wakefield is much more diverse that any other Arlington high school.

People toss around test scores as if it is a measure of school quality.  I suspect a quick quantitative analysis could show that almost all the variation Arlington high school test scores are a function of differences in the income and race distribution of the student body.

My kids will be going to W-L, but I wouldn't hesitate to send them to Wakefield.  The whole AP program is effectively a school-within-a-school and that is the peer effects they would be dealing with.[/quote]

I suspect you're right, but then why are people so worried about property values? If they redistricted to send more higher income kids to Wakefield….wouldn't its scores rise, making it less of a performance outlier?

It's not like property values in the area of the new Discovery Elementary are plummeting, even though hundreds of kids are going to go to a school that is a complete unknown. [/quote]

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