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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yorktown high school ranked #585 in US News. I grew up in an area that wasn’t as high cost but my high school was ranked under 200. It’s depressing to pay this much for substandard schools.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/arlington-county-public-schools/yorktown-high-school-20365[/quote]

The US News rankings started to look different once they began to include small charter schools across the country. So now many of the top-ranked schools nationally are charters in states like Florida and Arizona with a few hundred kids.  What that doesn't tell you is how the other schools in a state with a bunch of small charters may perform.

It's a bit easier to draw conclusions when you look at the rankings in individual states.  One could justifiably be a bit miffed that Arlington is an expensive as it is and that Yorktown, in particular, punches below its weight compared to schools in FCPS with similar demographics (W-L, the assigned school for Lyon Park, actually does at least as well as one might expect given its more diverse demographics).  But most people know APS doesn't put as much emphasis on advanced academics as FCPS, and that there aren't many Asian kids in APS to boost the US News and other ratings as in FCPS and LCPS.  [/quote]

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