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Ahhhh, I'll go out on a limb and say because people like you fled to the white rural suburbs in Loudon....[/quote]

So ..

Alexandria is whiter than Loudoun County, pp. (And FTR, that's how you spell Loudoun).
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Loudoun is whiter, sweetie. Also poorer. And just crappier.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/virginia.html

So embarrassing....[/quote]
Loudoun county is not poorer than Alexandria. It’s the wealthiest county in the US. Falls Church, Arlington and Fairfax are all more wealthy than Alexandria [/quote]

Wrong again! Can you get anything right? City of Alexandria HHI is higher than Loudoun, not that anybody other than you would even question it.

How's life in the redneck sticks today? Lots of guns going off? Dogs barking wildly?[/quote]

Man, you really need to stop confusing what you hear at The Whitley or whatever other housing project you pass by on your into Old Town with coming from Loudoun, PP. You sound deranged.

Anyway, Loudoun is higher income, has higher home values, is nearly exactly as white and as educated as Alexandria. We just have a better lifestyle. And our schools are much better.

Loudoun median income: $178,707
Alexandria media income: $113,638

Median value of home (Loudoun): $701,000
Median value of home (Alexandria): $696,800

Foreign born (Loudoun): 26.7%
Foreign born (Alexandria): 24.6%
  
Loudoun proportion of white alone, not Hispanic or Latino: 50.4%
Alexandria proportion of white alone, not Hispanic or Latino: 49.5%
 
High school education, Loudoun: 94.1%
High school education, Alexandria: 92.9%

Bachelors degree, Loudoun: 64%
Bachelors degree, Alexandria: 65.8%

And just to cut you off before you make a straw man argument about commutes:

Mean travel time to work (Loudoun): 31.1 minutes
Mean travel time to work (Alexandria): 29.3 minutes

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/loudouncountyvirginia,alexandriacityvirginia/COM100223

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Ha.

All that and you cherry picked the data. Sad. You had to lie.[/quote]
Look, there are a lot of ways that Alexandria is nicer than Loudoun or Fairfax or Arlington. The schools are the weak point. [/quote]

You're just never going to get it. ACHS produces much better outcomes for UMC kids than any other school in the area with the exception of TJ, Langley and maaaaaaybe Mclean.

If you moved out of ACPS so your kid could attend Edison, South Lakes, Herndon, Chantily, Battlefield, Falls Church, Broad Run or a dozen others, you are a fool.

You don't have to like being wrong, but you are.[/quote]
I would like to see what percentage of ACHS students get into top schools versus others. Their size is almost twice as big as some of these other schools so it makes sense. They’d be sending more kids to UVA, etc.But as I said elsewhere on this thread, admittance to top college is not the only thing that matters to me  the overall school experience is important too. 
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There’s no evidence at all that ACHS produces better college acceptance outcomes.

The closest you can get is that each year the Alexandria Times publishes all of the schools where students are going. Some years it is better than others. Last year the list was pretty good. I recall a few years ago (the year the kid got stabbed in Bradlee right before graduation), there were only six T20 schools listed. Out of a class of 800 kids, that was pretty bad. Sure, a few of those schools may have had more than one attendee, and a few kids did ED to UVA that could have gotten into a higher ranked school or got in higher but went in-state. But even generous estimates maybe put the number of T20 admittances at 3-5% of the class.

Again, last year looked better. It varies from year to year but it isn’t clearly better than most of the top public high schools in the region, and maybe worse.[/quote]

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