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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 - like the ones Pp purposely chose.

But for most of the 200 MCPS there is high correlation.[/quote]

You are sort of right that there is a high correlation for whiteness, Blackness, and Latino-ness at certain schools. But PP is making a case about Asian American students, and zip code is a terrible proxy for that because there is no majority Asian American school in MCPS and there are more Asian American kids living outside Bethesda/Potomac than in it. [/quote]

[b]They aren't looking at the total student population. They are talking about the chances of the top scoring kid at those schools being Asian. If you look at the county as a whole it's really high. At some of those schools I'm guessing it's much more than 50 percent.[/b]
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This. Most of the top scoring students at some schools are Asian. MCPS knows that. [/quote]

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