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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From HBW website:
I have heard that the HBW student body is not very diverse, that it does not mirror the County. Is that accurate?

HBW, as a county-wide program, does not draw students from only its local northern Arlington neighborhood, but from all over the county.  South Arlington students are as likely to attend HBW as north Arlington students.  HBW has students from all 5 middle schools and all 3 high schools, and the ratio of students enrolled from each school is roughly equal when compared to the overall number of students in each attendance zone.  For example 7.4 percent of students who live in the Wakefield attendance zone attend HBW, and 7.0 percent of the students in the Yorktown attendance zone attend HBW, despite HBW’s location within the Yorktown boundary.

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What an absolute non-answer!  It doesn’t address the diversity question at all. [/quote]

It doesn't answer the question directly because the real answer is that the HB student body does not reflect the county's diversity. It has a 18% FARMS rate while the county as a whole is at 31%. It's 64% white while the county is 46% white. Its rate of Former English Learners (students who finished receiving ESOL/HILT services in the past four years) this past year was 6% at the middle school level when the middle school average was 15%, and 1% at the high school level when the county was at 7%. Rather than admitting all of that, the county points to the fact that seats area available to everyone, even though it's predominantly affluent white people taking advantage, even in South Arlington.[/quote]

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