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Only using averages is a basic analysis, which only serves to identify which high school draws a higher percentage of rich kids. A better, refined analysis looks at the granular data, and isolates for race and socioeconomic status. When you isolate for race and socioeconomic status there is not much of a disparity between the performance of kids of the same backgrounds in these schools.

For example, let's look at FARMS kids SAT performance (page 10):

WJ = 1013
Einstein = 977
Wheaton = 948

White kids SAT performance (page 8):

WJ = 1275
Einstein = 1148
Wheaton = 1173

There is no way to isolate for race + socioeconomic background, but I would wager that the white kids in Wheaton and Einstein generally are less financially well off, and come from families with fewer graduate degrees than their counterparts at WJ. I also think it's safe to assume the FARMS kids at Einstein and Wheaton are less financially well off relative to the FARMS kids at WJ.

Bottom line: If you're worrying this much about your kids' education and are skewering PDFs of 2017 MoCo SAT scores your kids are going to do well whether they're at WJ, Woodward or Einstein. It doesn't really matter that much, aside from misconceptions of the uniformed general public that don't realize that a child's parents socioeconomic status and education level matter much more to a child's future than what school they go to, especially within the same school system.

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This was one of the better posts in the thread.[/quote]

Not really.  It starts out with a "if you isolate for race and socioeconomic status" hypothesis, and ends with "there is no way to isolate for race + socioeconomic background," which means PP has offered nothing more than conjecture to support a hypothesis that he or she finds most appealing.  It's neither logical nor likely to persuade anyone on the fence about buying in what might turn out to be the future Woodward district. [/quote]

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