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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s generally understood that elementary school class sizes are smaller in APS and MS and HS is more rigorous in McLean.  Look at the earlier statistics comparing Yorktown with Langley and McLean.

The Langley and McLean pyramids each also send over 115 kids to TJHSST, the regional STEM magnet. Yorktown sends about 40.  [/quote]
I think your number for how many kids Yorktown and TJ is off. Last time I checked, it was about 40 per year for the whole county[/quote]

APS reports 42 at TJ from Yorktown, 34 from W-L, and 32 from Wakefield.  This is after FCPS adopted a quota system that assures a minimum number of spots to kids at every participating middle school.  The remaining seats are then drawn from a general pool.

So the number is a good bit higher than 40 now for the whole county, but each of Langley and McLean still get more kids into TJ than all the APS schools.  [/quote]

But APS chooses to send less to TJ than the allotted seats. [/quote]

Then APS is curtailing access to the top magnet school in the region.  In any event, the difference in the number of National Merit Semifinalists from Langley and McLean compared to Yorktown, even when Langley and McLean send so many more kids to TJHSST than Yorktown, speaks to the difference in the number of top students at Langley and McLean compared to Yorktown.  [/quote]

Yorktown has been a more sports focused school for generations and that is widely known, even while still well regarded in terms of academics. (In other words, Yorktown may be a sports powerhouse but it does not have the reputation of an academic powerhouse, per se.) There are plenty of smart kids in Arlington, but in general the county does not attract the wealthy Asian families focused on education you find in McLean. There exceptions of course—a high number of high achieving Mongolian students in APS for example—but nothing close to Fairfax County. [/quote]

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