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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm looking at the report the earlier poster linked that shows SAT averages from a couple of years back and comparing similarly large cohorts the W's with Blair, and the W's just aren't as competitive as they were in years past despite their segregation.

[b]Blair 1326 [/b]
Walter Johnson 1275 
Wooton 1262 
Poolesville 1259 
Churchill 1257

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf[/quote]

People just keep bringing out the same thing again and again.

White kids do better at Blair than the W's. So? Blair is a better HS?

Also don't forget only about 25% of Blair students are white. That would be about ~200. And guess how many of them are in the magnet program (about 150 kids, among which, I'd say close to half are white)?

Now you get the idea of how "good" the non-magnet part of Blair is doing. Remember, that non-magnet part is where your kids go into if you choose to live in the zone and failed to get into the magnet program.
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The stats taken from Blairs Silver Chips made me think the magnet was largely Asian, and showed about 30-something out of boundary white kids per grade.  As to how Blair's non-magnet stacks up. I think an earlier poster showed the non-manget cohort was at 1296 which was still above any W.[/quote]

Fine, there might be some small corrections needed but 1296 is not too far from what it should be.
What does it tell you? White kids at Blair do better than the Ws?

Blair's Hispanic students, according to that study, is doing much worse than Wootton. Does it suggest that if you are Hispanic, you will be better off at Wootton than Blair?

Why don't we compare, say "kids with family income between 100K and 300K"?

These comparisons serve no purpose other than when people want to talk about race/income level etc. (for good or for bad). No one chooses a school based on comparing how a certain group of kids is doing between schools.

Blair's non-magnet part is in not as good as the top HS in the county.  I can understand why people just want to pick these unusual ways of comparisons since they can't boost the non-magnet part of Blair through normal comparisons.

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