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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet the scores are higher in Fairfax. Go figure.[/quote]

Eh, not really.  Fairfax has a slightly higher SAT score average but they also have a smaller number of AA and Hispanic kids, so the difference is probably there.  Honestly, even though people bitch and complain, I just don't see that much difference in the outcomes of similar kids in the different area school systems.

Fairfax:

African American: 1450
Asian American: 1742
Hispanic: 1491
White: 1721

MC:

African American: 1403 
Asian American: 1786
Hispanic: 1461
White : 1766

There seems to be more of an achievement gap in MC vs. Fairfax, but having grown up in Fairfax (and living in MoCo now) I think that MoCo is more heterogeneous WRT income than Fairfax is.  Fewer really poor areas in Fairfax. [/quote]

Fairfax has more Asian, White and Hispanic students than MCPS.  MCPS has more black students.  Fairfax has more middle and upper-middle income areas.  In MCPS, it's rich or poor with less in the middle. [/quote]

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