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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, that's what happens when half of the student body is magnet students who got admitted due to high standardized test scores.

For comparison, John Poole MS is 69% white, and 13% of students qualify for FARMs.[/quote]

And yet it still has a higher GS rating than North Bethesda MS and the same GS rating as Westland. [/quote]

"And yet" what?

North Bethesda MS: 56% white, 8% qualify for FARMs
Westland MS: 59% white, 8% qualify for FARMs[/quote]

If you’re going to use FARMS rate as a measure, 10% of John Poole students qualify for them, so that doesn’t really help your argument. Black and Hispanic students make up 21% of the students at North Bethesda MS, 25% at Westland MS, and 18% at John Poole. They don’t differ much in that regard either. Not to mention that John Poole has far more Black/Hispanic students than a lot of the other W feeder middle schools. [/quote]

What argument are you talking about? The one where half of the students at Poolesville HS are at Poolesville HS because they got admitted to the magnet programs?[/quote]

I’m not PP, but I’m assuming that the person who brought up John Poole’s GS rating being comparable to Westland’s is trying to go against the notion that Poolesville High School only has a high rating because of its magnets or because few Black/Hispanic/FARM recipient students go to schools in Poolesville.

Poolesville itself is a very affluent and educated area. They have a median income that isn’t too far off from Potomac’s and yet even John Poole has more Black and Hispanic students than Pyle and Cabin John. It’s true that the magnet students make up a large portion, but those magnets are regionalized to upcounty students only.

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