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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is why we lived in the Wakefield zone. We're black, upper middle class, and realized that whatever price premium Yorktown commands does not translate to our children. Black children at Yorktown actually do worse than those at Wakefield.

We spend our money supplementing and supporting our kids. Music lessons, tutoring, etc. We can afford for me to work very part-time (14 hours a week), so I can be more of a presence at home. Wakefield was actually a very positive experience for my kids.

We did all of these things and are kids are thriving. In college now at UVA and W&M.

People make choices for a lot of reasons. Just because someone wants to pay more to live in North Arlington doesn't mean that it's the right choice for everyone. [/quote]

URMs[/quote]

What a bigoted thing to say. You don't know this person's kid and you are making an assumption based on their race. Notably, you also are ignoring the point of the poster in that there's no value for a black family to send their children to Yorktown when black children perform better at Wakefield. Interesting dodge.

I do think the diversity is a good thing, in my experience as another black parent raising kids in the Wakefield zone. It's stressful enough dealing with racism and bullshit normally. I don't need to subject my kids to an environment like Yorktown on top of it.[/quote]

DP here, but the most recent test scores suggest black kids at both Yorktown and W-L are performing higher than those at Wakefield.  It's one thing to say you that, for social reasons, you want a school with a higher or minimum percentage of a particular minority group, but it's another to just assume those kids also perform better than their peers at other schools.  That may or may not be the case. [/quote]

Dp- the most recent scores of black students at Wakefield include large numbers of immigrants from North Africa. Many are ESOL. Your current stats are worthless to native speaking middle class AA’s.[/quote]

That's actually not true. When you look at score breakdowns, black children perform worse at Yorktown (also, strangely McLean).

The strongest school for black students in NOVA is West Springfield followed by Woodson. It's a strange thing, but there's no correlation between how expensive a district it is and black student performance.

-Mom who did a deep dive and settled into a west springfield feeder for her own black children.[/quote]

What scores and over what period?

Found this on a 2015 thread:

"There are periodic threads about which FCPS high school pyramids are "good" for AA families who emphasize education.

To assist, I've crunched some numbers. Here are the average SAT scores by HS for black students only over the past three years (I just took the average scores for the past three years and averaged them, without weighting for the number of students taking the SAT each year). I've added in parenthesis the percentage of black students at each school as of September 2015

TJ 2145 (1.4%) 
Madison 1659 (1.9%) 
Oakton 1620 (4.6%) 
Langley 1610 (1.0%) 
McLean 1600 (2.6%) 
Woodson 1600 (5.0%) 
Marshall 1582 (4.6%) 
Chantilly 1530 (6.9%) 
Lake Braddock 1527 (6.3%) 
West Springfield 1508 (6.9%) 
Robinson 1507 (6.6%) 
Fairfax 1496 (10.4%) 
Westfield 1473 (12.1%) 
South Lakes 1471 (13.1%) 
Centreville 1457 (9.0%) 
Edison 1457 (21.4%) 
Hayfield 1443 (27.4%) 
South County 1441 (17.9%) 
Herndon 1438 (8.4%) 
Lee 1425 (13.8%) 
Annandale 1423 (17.0%) 
Stuart 1364 (10.1%) 
Falls Church 1355 (7.1%) 
West Potomac 1336 (18.0%) 
Mount Vernon 1334 (27.3%)"

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