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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you average that's around 97% , so I was in the ballpark! But even in separate columns, those results are outstanding for an open admission DC school. Wow. If they could do that in ward 7, with the scholarships they obtain??? But no Plato or diploma for ward 7 kids because...PARCC[/quote]

Enough with the scholarships. They are not a metric that is used when evaluating any public high school in teh country. And if you compare WL to BASIS, Banneker or Walls ... the amount of merit scholarships per graduate isn't that impressive.

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Tell that to the kids who got rhem. Enough with your scholarships! More metrics is what we need in DC![/quote]

That data point is misleading. Let's say the top 15-20 students rack up several hundred thousand each and the graduating class is small. The school brags that the graduating class "earned a total of $X Million in scholarships" but neglect to mention that the lion's share went to a small fraction of the class.

How do I know? Because my kid graduated this year and received a total of $650,000 in merit scholarships. Ended up accepting none of them (grrr), but it certainly helped make his graduating class' cumulative total look great. Some of his classmates received even more than he did.[/quote]

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