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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJHSST is operated by FCPS but is considered a governors school and that may make it independent in some ways. [/quote]

Legally, TJ absolutely IS a Virginia Governor's school and the VA Dept of Education merely has a contract with FCPS to operate it. FCPS often tries to hide this and uses TJ stats to boost their overall statistics. [/quote]

FCPS both owns and operates TJ, and renews a contract with the VDOE every year to operate as a Governor’s School.  Most TJ students live in Fairfax, and the number of TJ students from the FCPS pyramids that send the most students to TJ is much larger than the number from any of the APS pyramids. [/quote]
But isn’t it obvious that there would be more FCPS student since FCPS is much larger geographically, has more students and higher student to teacher ratio? [/quote]

It’s not just that FCPS sends more students.  It’s also that the top FCPS pyramids send more kids to TJ than any of the pyramids in APS.

Also, some years individual schools in FCPS have had more National Merit Semifinalists than all the high schools in APS combined. [/quote]
APS Caps how many students they send to TJ so you can’t really compare [/quote]

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