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Seriously? The Greatshchools nonsense is getting to everyones heads. Or at least the trolls. Where was the "Yorktown troll" who probably isn't even from Arlington, when Yorktown had "low" Greatschools scores a couple years ago. Comparing the VA SOLs to DC's standardized tests is insanity. Many of the DC high schools have scores of 3,4,5,6, and 7 yet most all affluent residents avoid them like the plague (with the exception of Wilson and SWW). Many are moving to Arlington, Moco, and FCPS for the schools. If you look at W-L's actual test scores on the VA Dept of Education site (link posted previously in different thread) Hispanic, White, and Black students scored at the same level as Yorktown students and above their Wakefield peers. Asian students scored below their Yorktown and Wakefield peers. Greatschools, like most rating sites all develop different algorithms to determine rankings based on scores. Schooldigger is a rival rating site based on the VA SOL test scores that gives Yorktown and W-L the same ranking. Regarding National Merit Semifinalists and Finalists, W-L tends to have the most impressive numbers in the county every year. Overall Yorktown has the highest SAT scores in the county, and both W-L's and Yorktown's SAT scores are very good. W-L tends to have the most grads headed to ivy league schools. In addition to the two Harvard early admits, one student each was accepted into Columbia and UPenn.

Don't believe the trolls. We love our Arlington schools. All the families we know at Yorktown and W-L are wonderful, and many N Arlington families have kids at both high schools. The "Yorktown troll" would probably be shocked to learn that roughly 200 students transfer from Yorktown into W-L every year for the IB program. In fact, looking at the car school "magnets" or bumper stickers around N Arlington you will see that many cars have both Yorktown and W-L magnets. OP, I think you will love Swanson, W-L, or Yorktown, depending on where you end up purchasing.[/quote]

I don't have a dog in this fight, but your transfer number seemed high to me, so I checked.   Turns out the number of transfers from Yorktown to W-L is typically between 130-140 students.  That's not "roughly 200," unless you're OK with a large margin of error.

In any event, I'd personally be fine with sending me kids to W-L, but somewhat creeped out that there are parents there as invested as you seem to be in dissecting the test scores and college admissions of all the students there.  Your post almost reads as if you'd like to eliminate the Asian students at W-L to make the school look better vis-a-vis Yorktown.  Sometimes a bit less micro-analysis is the stronger argument.  Are the kids happy there? [/quote]

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