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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. It is obvious that comparing MCPS to a tiny, homogeneous, city-based district is inane.

Which raises the question - is there a district similar to MCPS that is doing better?

For the sake of comparing apples to apples, let's define "similar to MCPS" to mean:

150K or more kids

30% or more FARMS

60 % or more non-white[/quote]

SAT scores for Fairfax county vs. MCPS in 2016:
2016 MCPS 1631 with 65% taking the SAT (down from 1651 in 2012 when 71% of students took the SAT) 153 National Merit Semifinalists
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?page=showrelease&id=6102
2016 Fairfax County 1672 with around 70% of students taking the SAT tests.  (Fairfax County SAT scores were around 1650 in 2012) 223 National Merit Semifinalists
https://www.fcps.edu/index.php/news/two-hundred-twenty-three-fcps-students-named-2018-national-merit-semifinalists

Fairfax County student body is 39% white, 25.4 percent Hispanic, 19.5 Asian, 10.1 percent Black, 5.3 percent two or more races, 0.3 percent American Indian and 0.1 percent 
30% FARMS, 29% ESOL, per student funding is $14,700
Bigger with nearly 190,000 students

MCPS is 28.3 % white, 32.3% Hispanic, 21.4% Black, 14.4% Asian and <5% Two or more races
35.5% FARMS, 17.5% ESOL
160,000 students

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/about/Refresh_2011_Content_Pieces/MCPS-At-a-Glance-%2002.02.18(1).pdf

What is interesting is that if you look at the SAT scores by school, there are more high schools in MCPS that have SAT scores higher than 1700.  
MCPS has 8: 
Whitman 1897, Poolesville 1862, Churchill 1851,Wootton 1818, Richard Montgomery 1779, Walter Johnson 1753, BCC 1741, Blair 1730
Fairfax County has 6
Thomas Jefferson Magnet 2198, Langley 1851, McLean 1821, Madison 1789, Woodson 1755, Oakton 1750
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