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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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20:12 - something is very wrong with your scores. You inflated Blair, deflated Churchill, and slightly inflated Wheaton.

Here are the SAT scores available at Niche.com

Churchill 1330 
Blair 1270 
Einstein and Wheaton 1150

The PP's intent was to look past simple averages that GS uses which serve only to identify which high-schools draw a higher percentage of rich kids., and provide a better, refined analysis that looks at the granular data.

When you isolate for race which is proxy a for socioeconomic status there is not much of a disparity between the performance of kids of the same backgrounds across these schools.

For example, when you compare average SAT scores for MCPS schools for a larger demographic common to all these schools the great schools narrative begins to fall apart and it becomes clear they're not all that different.

Blair 1326 
Walter Johnson 1275 
Wooton 1262 
Churchill 1257 
Wheaton 1173 
Einstein 1148

The data is for the largest cohort common to the aforementioned schools on page 10. 
http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/shareda...c_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf [/quote]

Except the data doesn't show that kids do the same. As a PP pointed out AA students do better at Churchill than Blair. I also still didn't see the numbers that the PP is posting and can't figure out how she got them. Did she only include Asian students in the magnet program for Blair and then remove the Asian students from Churchill? Weird.

Regardless, the PP's maneuvering doesn't particularly help the DCC schools. Every other source available will report the actual average which has schools like Churchill and Wootton up in the 1300s and Blair in the 1200s with Wheaton/Einstein in the mid 1100s.  No parent is going to rifle through internal MCPS data to cherry pick certain scores and come to the conclusion that somehow Blair is better. Every ranking from US News to Niche to Great Schools has the DCC schools in the middle to bottom. It just is what it is.

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