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You're very uninformed.  Neighborhoods other than Pimmit Hills feed into Marshall.  You have some strange bee in your bonnet about Marshall.  Care to share with us where your hatred for Marshall came from?[/quote]

I don't hate Marshall at all; far from it.  It's a good school.  I do dislike it when people trot out rankings that they know are flawed, as part of an effort to hijack a thread.  The OP wasn't asking about schools in the Marshall pyramid, but instead about schools in the McLean, Woodson and Madison pyramids.  You started off by claiming that affluent people don't live in the Woodson pyramid any more, which is also clearly wrong, and then followed up by citing the latest US News rankings, which have been pilloried in the media for their inaccuracies, to suggest Marshall is the best HS in the county other than TJ.  In Marshall's case, US News inaccurately assumed that 99% of recent Marshall graduates took 1 or more IB courses, which is absurd.  No one around here believes that, but it's one of the underpinnings of the US News methodology.  Fix that assumption and you get different rankings.

The goal of your posts seems to be to discredit Woodson and convince the OP that Marshall is now the better school.  That's not the case, so deal with it.  There are good things to be said about Marshall, but people are probably not going to hear them from you, since all you seem to be capable of doing is citing one flawed study by a financially strapped publication.

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