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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would expect basically every school to cater well to every race that is Not Economically Disadvantaged.

But what OP is looking for is a very large concentration. You'll only find that in mainly in one place in MCPS and that's the schools that feed into Blair or the DCC more broadly. At the W schools you'll find numerous Not Ecnomically Disadvantaged Black students who are at the top of their class, but the total population won't be anywhere near 20%.[/quote]

OP here. If you look at the granular data at the school level, you will [b]not[/b] find that your expectation is met re: "every school to cater[ing] well to every race that is Not Economically Disadvantaged." There are a bunch of schools I have already looked at where a small percentage of the Black student population at that school is FARMs-eligible, (i.e., the vast majority of Black students at that school are not economically disadvantaged), but where average Black student test scores at that school still lag far behind average white student test scores at the same school. Basically, the difference in Black and white student test scores is partially, but not completely, explained by socio-economic factors and this is generally true nationwide, not just in MoCo, MD, or even DC area schools. [There is also a ton of education industry $$ and research dedicated to identifying and addressing all of the other factors that cause this phenomenon, but that's not the point of me posting here... I'm really just looking for a decent school for my kid a few years from now.]

I also wanted to address your "very large concentration" comment, which isn't really accurate. The overall student population in MCPS is 21.8% Black (see https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/about/), so I am looking for a school where the % of Black students is, at a minimum, reflective of the overall demographic composition of the school district... if this seems like an extremely high percentage (i.e. "a large concentration") to you, it just means that you probably live [and your kid probably goes to school] in a part of MoCo where Black folks are underrepresented compared to the county as a whole and that your perception is skewed based on that.

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