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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

People are surely now going to post that this is proof that MCPS is too big.

So another question should be: list some small town/city-based districts that do badly. This shouldn't be hard, since most districts in the US are small and town/city-based. And for every "top" exclusive small town/city-based district, there must be one or more districts for the kids who are excluded from the "top" districts..[/quote]

I'm not going to name the school district because it is far too specific, but the district where I grew up is small, city-based, and TERRIBLE.

Stats:

930 students, K-12

50% FARMS

81% White

38% proficient in reading

77% HS graduation rate[/quote]

Yep, small is not enough, it needs to be rich as well. 
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Of course. No one is saying small is good enough. I was the one who countered the MA suggestion with Wellesley. Wellesley's advantage is that it is not only small, but it is rich. There are essentially no poor kids.

An example of a poor performing, town-based district in MA: Lawrence. 13,000 kids, but high poverty rates. In fact, Lawrence and the town next to it (Andover) have some of the biggest differences in educational outcomes of any two adjacent towns in the US, and they epitomize the problem with looking at town-based districts as a comparison point with MCPS. Lawrence is rated as C on Niche, while Andover is an A+. Of course, a county-based district would include both (they're both in Essex County) and many more towns, and the scores would look very different. [/quote]

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