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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]		                Reading	Math	Writing	
Thomas	Jefferson	724	766	729	2219
					
Langley	High	620	635	610	1865
McLean	High	606	620	593	1819
Oakton	High	595	618	590	1803
Woodson	High	596	614	588	1798
					
Madison	High	598	605	585	1788
Marshall	High	587	596	591	1774
Chantilly	High	566	590	554	1710
					
Herndon	High	567	575	554	1696
Lake	Braddock	563	577	553	1693
Westfield	High	560	580	544	1684
Robinson	Secondary	558	575	549	1682
South	Lakes	562	567	547	1676
West	Springfield	565	566	544	1675
					
Centreville	High	548	568	542	1658
South	County	552	560	539	1651
Fairfax	High	544	561	531	1636
West	Potomac	536	535	529	1600
Hayfield	Secondary	525	516	509	1550
Falls	Church	517	538	494	1549
Annandale	High	501	527	497	1525
					
Edison	High	505	514	497	1516
Lee	High	502	517	493	1512
Stuart	High	492	511	488	1491
Mount	Vernon	492	495	470	1457
					
FCPS		566	580	556	1702
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Would love to see a graphing of the SES against this data. [b] Seems like the schools with the greatest diversity have the lowest scores[/b]... so gosh, is it really a feather in Langley's hat (or schools with other "top" SAT averages) if they have almost no SES diversity?  I mean, it's not like you're comparing apples to apples if you are comparing one school that is 90% white and 98% not FARMs with another school that is 35% white and 60% not FARMS.  Are we all supposed to applaud that the first school has  a higher average SAT score?  Given national achievement gaps on the SATs, it's no surprise that the higher-income school with few minorities (not specifically referencing Langley here) has higher scores than schools with more low income kids and/or minority kids.

the high performing schools have every right to be proud b/c their scores are great -- but it's not a fair comparison when looking at dissimilar schools in FCPS.[/quote]
Don't you think TJ is pretty well diversified?[/quote]

Actually, TJ is arguably the most diversified school since this school has kids/parents from all parts of the world including Africa, Caribbean, Far East Asia, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia as well as Hispanics and few other areas. Langley and McLean I think are overwhelmingly white.[/quote]

Actually, no.  TJ already has more Asian students than McLean has white students, and soon will have more Asian students than Langley has white students as well.  Just as the term "Asian" includes students from many different countries and backgrounds, so too does "White" in Fairfax County, where it includes, for example, many students from the Middle East and Europe.

And there are very few Hispanics and AA students at TJ compared to any other HS in FCPS, except perhaps Langley. [/quote]

I thought one measures how diverse a given school is by looking at the % of non-white students including Asian students since Asians are a minority group?[/quote]

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