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Now you are asking uncomfortable question.

SAT score for Black kids in Blair - 1032 
SAT score for Hispanics in Blair - 1037

WJ or Whitman sat score for the same groups are significantly higher. In short, Blair doesn't outperform.

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Socioeconomic status matters though. Do you think the black and hispanic kids are richer or poorer than the black and hispanic kids at Blair? That's a rhetorical question, obviously, because Whitman pulls from the richest area in the county. [/quote]

I don't doubt it, but since Whitman likely has &lt;5% of these groups (0% to 5%), the data isn't meaningful in this instance. [/quote]

So, basically, the black and hispanic kids in Blair (with a 38% rate of low-income students according to GS) are doing worse on their SATs than black and hispanic kids at Whitman (with a 3% rate of low-income students according to GS). Being that Blair's student population has 12 times more low-income students than Whitman, doesn't it say even more about how overrated Whitman is that black kids at Whitman scored an average of 1169 on the SATs compared to 993 at Einstein and 990 at Wheaton? Shouldn't they be excelling at a much higher rate? Why is Whitman failing these kids when 97% of the school is classified as not being "low-income"?
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Because it is a myth that sticking poor kids with rich kids helps them. All it really does is bury their mediocrity in a pool of higher stats. It does affect rich pockets bringing poor problems which they would have other wise not had to deal with.[/quote]

You're making the assumption that most, or all, of the black kids at Whitman are poor. I'm assuming they're mostly well off being that Whitman pulls from mostly SFH areas with very low poverty rates. With that in mind, Whitman is really underserving black kids compared to Blair, where there is 12x more low-income kids.[/quote]

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