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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zip code and school catchment area is a highly correlated proxy for SES and race. Many people purposely live near their own markets, churches/temples/mosques, restaurants and communities within a larger society. [/quote]

Pick a kid at random from Robert Frost MS. What race/ethnicity is that kid? What are the chances that the kid is not that race/ethnicity?

Now do the same for North Bethesda MS, Silver Spring International MS, Argyle MS, Rosa Parks MS...[/quote]

You are both right: in many cases there is high correlation and in some cases it’s a try hodgepodge of students -[b] like the ones Pp purposely chose. 
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But for most of the 200 MCPS there is high correlation.[/quote]

Then you pick a MCPS middle school where there's a high probability that a randomly-chosen kid is a particularly race/ethnicity. Even at Pyle MS and John Poole MS, the chance that the kid is white is only 7 in 10. At Col. Brooke Lee MS, there's only a 6 in 10 chance that the kid is Hispanic. At the middle schools in the Churchill and Wootton clusters, odds are that the kid is white, since whites are the biggest group in all of those middle schools.[/quote]

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