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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a few years out, so our experience may be dated, but WL started the IB program because the school was viewed as less desirable than Yorktown and it was hoped that the program would shore it up.  That appears to have worked, but I'd be surprised if we've now reached the point where WL is actually a better school than Yorktown academically. [b] Test scores certainly don't bear that out -- in a typical year, Yorktown's are marginally higher across the bored.[/b]

We had high achieving kids attend Yorktown, and they had no interest in the IB program.  Lots of high achieving kids don't.  The idea that an academically oriented kid would be "bullied" at Yorktown for that reason sounds preposterous to me, unless the school climate has undergone a truly dramatic transformation over the last few years.[/quote]

However, if you look at UMC kids from both schools, I believe their scores would be very similar.  The difference in scores has to do with the economic diversity at WL.[/quote]

Maybe.  My point is simply that WL hasn't become a "better school" academically than Yorktown overall.

APS doesn't break down SAT scores by economic class -- they do it solely by race and gender.  Using white as a proxy for UMC, which I hesitate to do, yes, the average white student at WL has had a slightly higher SAT score than at Yorktown over the last four years (1295 to 1270).  But Yorktown tests on average 40 more white students a year than WL, which skews the numbers lower.  And Yorktown's minorities -- Asian, Latino, and AA -- all test higher than WL's on average.  So, in the end, the overall average score for Yorktown ends up being "marginally higher" -- 1238 versus 1217.

Bottom line:  nothing suggests that WL has become "better" academically than Yorktown.  
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They are both good schools with plenty to challenge an academically inclined student. I looked at the SOL scores for not-economically-disadvantaged students and the scores are generally not that different. However W-L tends to be a few points higher in % pass advanced while Yorktown tend to be a few points higher in total % pass. [/quote]

SOLs are bs and students don't take them seriously.[/quote]

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