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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So? It’s a huge school. These numbers actually sound pretty good to me [/quote]

That's a huge number for the population and far more than the community background case rate. It's not even close/debatable.  The Wakefield case rate is 20+ cases for a population of 2200.  For a county with 230,000 (over 100x the pop of Wakefield), that would be the equivalent of having 2000+ cases over the same period (100X Wakefield's 20+ cases).  Arlington has very little transmission.  There have been a bit more than 350 positive cases in the entire county in the last couple week.  Probably not a big deal for Wakefield because COVID doesn't affect this population much.  No reason to get alarmed.  But the math is that Wakefield has a case rate far higher than Arlington as a whole.    [/quote]

Thanks for the math.

WHS is by far the most diverse HS with populations harder hit by the virus. [/quote]

Wakefield isn’t particularly diverse. Last I saw it was majority Hispanic?

Yorktown was the school that most closely matched Arlington’s demographics, as I recall. But it’s been a few years since I looked at the demographics.[/quote]

Have you ever looked at the demographics?  Yorktown does not approximate the overall student demographics. That's WL.
And yes, Wakefield is high % Hispanic; but also has a lot more Black and still significant portion of White.  Low on Asian.  45% FRL-eligibility at Wakefield is still a diverse school and more so than the 10-15% at Yorktown; but WL's 30-ish is what mirrors the overall student SE profile.[/quote]

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