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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great Schools ranks schools exclusively by test scores. There is an extraordinarily tight correlation between high test scores and high SES. So of course all the schools ranked highly by great schools will be in rich neighborhoods.

How much test scores tell you about the quality of a school is another question.[/quote]

Not entirely true.

For DC, and any other jurisdictions that calculate PMF score, that's factored into the Great Schools rating along with the test score. MD and VA don't do PMF - so theirs are just PARCC (MD) and SOLs (VA).

Not true in any sense. There are many schools with high test scores and low neighborhood SES, and many schools with low test scores and high neighborhood SES.

When we were looking for schools, you can bet we used GS ranking as ONE OF our priorities.

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What's an example of a non charter, must take all comers school in a poor neighborhood with high test scores? What's an example of a school in a rich neighborhood attended by students in that rich neighborhood with low scores?[/quote]

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