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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee[/quote]

(US News)
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Might as well stack them by  F/R lunch rate. Seriously, this is stupid. Show me a poor school that is beating the odds and I will be impressed.[/quote]

W-L is 29% economically disadvantaged, 58% minority 
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Love the smack down.[/quote]

Perhaps W-L is punching above its weight. Or perhaps it benefits from transfers from Yorktown and Wakefield seeking out the IB program. If you have a number of students transferring in exclusively for an advanced program then it will probably improve school performance, despite a raised F/R lunch rate (and not exceedingly high - remember, Stuart not far away in Fairfax, has 67% F/R lunch rate). Not trying to slight W-L, but there are a lot of factors involved.

Some schools are stuck in a poverty trap because education first families avoid them. This causes them to sink further every year.[/quote]

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