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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't Marshall a wealthy school just like all of the other fcps high schools minus the Lee/Stewart/Mt. Vernon type schools?

This is a very affluent area and almost all of the high schools are overflowing with upper middle class kids.[/quote]

FARMS Percentages at FCPS High Schools (Virginia DOE stats for October 2016)/# of $1.0 million property sales over past 12 months.

Langley 1.4 (350)
TJHSST 1.8 (n/a)
McLean 8.5 (267) 
Madison 9.2 (169)
Robinson 9.2 (30) 
West Springfield 10.8 (0) 
Woodson 10.9 (17) 
Oakton 11.7 (88) 
Lake Braddock 13.8 (12) 
South County 16.7 (17) 
Chantilly 17.1 (6) 
Marshall 17.3 (103) 
Westfield 22.9 (10) 
Fairfax 23.3 (17) 
Centreville 24.2 (11) 
South Lakes 27.9 (34) 
Hayfield 28.3 (0) 
Edison 34.4 (0)
Herndon 38.1 (8) 
West Potomac 38.6 (32)
Falls Church 49.6 (8) 
Mount Vernon 50.5 (12) 
Lee 52.6 (0) 
Annandale 53.7 (6) 
Stuart 59.1 (20)

Langley and TJ are the outliers in terms of almost no poverty; Falls Church, Mount Vernon, Lee, Annandale and Stuart are the five schools with the most poverty.  In terms of high-end property sales, however, there are five school districts with the lion's share;  Langley, McLean, Madison, Marshall and Oakton.  There's also another subset of schools with little poverty, but also few super-expensive neighborhoods, West Springfield being the prime example.

Marshall may roughly be in the middle of FCPS schools in terms of the percentage of lower-income students, but it's now 4 out of 25 in terms of the number of $1.0M-plus property sales.  West Potomac won't "become a Marshall in 10 years" unless Route 1 becomes another Tysons, and there's next to no prospect of that happening.   [/quote]

Thank you for pulling this together, very interesting. We live in Falls Church pyramid and I went to West Springfield. I have a two year old. It's crazy to me that I need to worry if I am setting up my child to have a "worse" education than I had living 5 miles from my childhood home in the same school district. Such is the state of the American education and it makes no sense to me, we need more integration. There just shouldn't be these disparities in FARMS, [b]it's shameful that most of us think its ok[/b].[/quote]

Most white parents, even those who self-identifty as liberal, would prefer to send their kids to a school that is low on FARMS and minority enrollments.  In Georgia, white parents even pupil place their students into a poorer performing but predominantly white school rather than send them to a higher performing school with larger numbers of minorities.  I don't understand it.  You see it in places like NYC too.  
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