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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When will FCPS issue the press release?

Looking forward to analysis from the FOIA data![/quote]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/25/tj-class-of-2026-data/

The Class of 2026 at TJ, as the school is known, will include 550 students accepted from a pool of 2,544 applicants. Of the offers sent to eighth-graders, about 60 percent went to Asian students, 21 percent to White students, 8 percent to Hispanic students and 6 percent to Black students. Roughly 33 percent of offers went to low-income students and 51 percent went to female students.

The Class of 2025, the first to be admitted under the system, was about 54 percent Asian, 22 percent White, 11 percent Hispanic and 7 percent Black. Roughly 25 percent of students receiving offers were economically disadvantaged.[/quote]

If this is true

- Asians increased from 54 to 60 and will in 2-3 years be closer to 80%. Asian families who value TJ will disperse geographically for middle school and legitimately “game” the system.  Nothing wrong in that - it is like tax avoidance your tax advisor does to minimize your tax liability. All within the rules to get you maximum advantage

- the whole low-income category is totally ripe for gaming - not surprised if that is happening as well.

So we will soon end up in a situation where the racial composition of TJ resembles pre-reform days except that many truly deserving candidates will lose out  (by way of their parents’ unwillingness to game or living in the wrong school district.)

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