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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The irony is that Yorktown HS most closely mirrors the demographics of Arlington County. [/quote]

Interesting- I got on here to debunk this- but when I looked it up apparently the poster is correct...
The county is approximately- 64% white; 15% Latino; 8% African-American; 10% Asian.
https://arlingtonva.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2016/04/2016ProfilePagesFINAL.pdf

Yorktown is - 64% white; 15% Latino; 6% African-American; 8% Asian.  
http://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Civil-Rights-Table-1-2016-11-30-web.pdf

However- if you just go with students enrolled in APS- it would be 47% white; 28% Latino; 10%African-American; 9% Asian.

I guess the households without Children really do not mirror the demographics of households with children.[/quote]

I think it makes sense for the schools to reflect the demographics of the school system, not the overall population. [/quote]

Some would accuse you of moving the goal posts. Several people have insisted it mirror county demographics.[/quote]

No, people have been saying all along that the schools should try and match the demographics of APS -- [b]someone noticed that Yorktown's racial profile is similar to the county overall and has been pushing that[/b], but it doesn't make any sense since a) the real issue is economic diversity, and b) mathematically, the demographics of APS students are so different from the county overall that you [i]cannot[/i] have all three schools look like the county. W-L does in fact have close to the same economic and racial diversity as APS a whole. [/quote]

If you're referring to the Facebook thread I think you're referring to, that comment was in direct response to someone else's insistence that the schools mirror county demographics. I don't think that person was "pushing" anything -- in fact he later noted how the school demographics were different than the school demographics and suggested the previous poster change her messaging.

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