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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My goodness, why are the schools ranked so awful on GS in this area?!

[b]Schools in Moco with little diversity and high FARMS numbers have much better GS rankings then West Potomac...
Why is it ranked so poor?[/quote]
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It’s largely because of the AAP program, which pulls the highest performing kids out of their neighborhood schools and sends them to a center school starting in third grade, which is the year that kids take the Virginia SOL which are used to compute the Great Schools ratings...

I’m sure most schools would not fare well if you excluded the highest 20% of academic performers from their official evaluations.[/quote]

Sorry, the above should apply to elementary schools in this area.  Not sure how this affects middle and high school.[/quote]

the AAP center is at Stratford Landing which recently jumped to 6 out of 10. West Potomac (along with MVHS) pulls from the RT1 corridor which is the poorest area in Fairfax. Langley and McLean don't have literal trailer parks within their bounds [/quote]

In addition to AAP issues, based on the two 22308/22309 neighborhoods I've lived in, I'd say about 30-40% of the kids attend private or Catholic schools for some or all of their K-12 education.  Those are (mostly) high performing kids who are leaving the public school system. I would bet there is no other area in the DMV that loses such a high number of kids to private schools.    
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Alexandria City loses a lot too. Honestly, the reason why there are so many decent-but-not-stellar Alexandria privates that thrive (not naming any names....) is because they get all the kids whose parents find Route 1 schools and Alexandria City (Jefferson Houston and TCW) unacceptable.

You also have large #s of people from those areas fleeing for schools to places like Burke.[/quote]

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