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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Langley isn't any more special because a lot of it's base school kids go to TJ. These are mostly kids who do not spend a single instructional day in Langley.  It has to do with the feeder system. As a PP pointed out, Carson splits pretty evenly between 4 HSs.  If all of the Carson kids going to TJ fed to the same HS, that HS would have more the twice the transfers out to TJ that Langley has (80-90 kids a year x 4 years). So this list is meaningless. [/quote]

[b]The list is quite informative,[/b] at least for those who know the high school boundaries and feeders.  As to your other point, if all the Carson kids going to TJ went to a single high school, that school would be far larger than Langley or any other public high school in the region, so that's a much more far-fetched notion to entertain.[/quote]

what difference does it make? Base schools (as the thread title uses that term) don’t send kids to TJ.[/quote]

Are you being deliberately dense?  People know the HS pyramids and feeders.  This indicates that, statistically, kids who live within the Langley boundaries are the most likely to end up at TJ.  Or, looked at it from the opposite perspective, it tells you that Langley "loses" more kids to TJ than any other school.

It's fairly obvious the data upsets you for some reason.  Chill.[/quote]

But, high school pyramids don't correlate directly to the feeders, especially once AAP gets thrown in.  Which is why you end up with screwy situations like Carson, which is a "super center" feeding into 4 high schools. Obviously, all the South Lakes kids aren't going to the South Lakes feeders-- that would be Hughes  MS (not Carson) and schools like Sunrise ES, which takes lots of the Oakton AAP kids.  Lots of pyramids are like this.  So this doesn't give you a good picture of the quality of education that AAP kids are getting leading up to high school.  So what the numbers tell you are that most TJ kids are in the Langley/McLean/Marshall area (the highest SES in the county) and the Western part of the County (SL/Chantilly/Westfield). Weirdly, chunks of Oakton also come from Herndon-- and this is all heavily affluent Asian. So this list says something about Fairfax County demographics, but nothing about the quality of the high schools-- unless you think Westfield is outperforming Madison, for example -- which is what wthis list would lead you to beleive. [/quote]
You're making the interpretation of the data far more complicated than it ought to be. [/quote]

Well, the feeder system is insanely complicated. And if you are looking at educational quality, you have to look at the feeder ESs and MSs that are best preparing kids for TJ, and not the HSs, that play no role. And the ES/MSs do not directly correlate to the pyramids HSs in a lot of cases. [/quote]

It is the individual student that drives the acceptance to TJ,not the education of the ES or MS.  Parents do tons outside of school.  SES counts the most. [/quote]

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