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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's ranked as the best public high school in the United States.  Obviously the county is doing something right.  Kudos.[/quote]

I cannot believe that magnet schools are ranked against regular ole public schools. If every 3 counties in the U.S. pooled their best students into one school, the result wouldn’t be much different. [/quote]

You should share your opinion with US news  (which does the ranking).  I don't think they are reading this forum.[/quote]

It's actually the fact that US News started included very small charters with magnet programs that knocked TJ down in the US News national rankings frequently in recent years.  Those small charters are frequently in urban school districts that allowed charters in a last-ditch effort to retain families (or certain families) in their systems.  US News crunches their numbers the same way they crunch the numbers of much larger open-enrollment schools.

FCPS, of course, was not in a similar situation when it opened TJHSST.  It was opened because there was a temporary dip in student enrollment in the mid-80s (due to nation-wide demographics) and the Republican supervisors thought a "science and tech" school sounded like a good marketing strategy to woo the East Coast lobbying arms of West Coast defense contractors to suburban office parks in Fairfax.  It seemed like a win-win at the time, but it came back to bite FCPS in the ass when enrollments went back up and TJ's demographics eventually no longer even remotely resembled the demographics of the county as a whole.

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