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Where are you getting your numbers?  If you look at page 19 of this MCPS report
 http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/160929%20SAT%20Exam%20Participation%20Perform.pdf
 it shows that white students had the following scores:
Einstein  1804, Whitman 1917, BCC 1841, [b]Blair 1960,[/b] Churchill 1880, Richard Montgomery 1873, Poolesville 1772, Sherwood 1669, Walter Johnson 1815, Wootton 1809
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Anyone else notice that the number of white students taking the SAT dropped from 80% in 2012 to 70% in 2016? Is this an indicator that higher performing white students/families leaving MCPS or that lower performing white students are just not motivated to take it anymore?  White student scores basically haven't changed at all during that period, so I have no idea what this means. A combination of both? [/quote]
Did you check to see if more kids are taking the ACT now?  I have heard that growing numbers of students are opting to take the ACT instead of the SAT[/quote]
Possible. But it is also notable that the number of white student graduates has also declined from 3,962 to 3,613. In the same period, the number of hispanic graduates increased 2,199 to 2,447. I suspect it is a combination of white flight in the eastern part of the county, where probably you see more white families moving to Howard county and then more affluent students are probably moving to private, but the numbers there are not as large. But the likely outcome is that the net impact on SAT scores is balanced out.[/quote]

Actually, demographic data shows the exact opposite. Howard County is getting more diverse as more people are priced out of closer in spots from Baltimore and DC. Data shows people are increasingly valuing closer commutes and less time in the car hence the exurbs are declining in value. A large affordable housing project just approved in the county for this reason. [/quote]

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