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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dude, you are all missing the point. When people talk about test scores, what they really mean are test scores for the wealthier kids. [b]And, the test scores for wealthier kids in most south arlington schools are LOWER than north arlington. Yes, white kids at Kenmore generally have lower scores than Williamsburg. Decades of studies show that wealthier kids generally do not perform as well when they are in lower performing schools. [/b]

It is clear to me that no one is talking about the scores for poorer kids, because for the most part they are the same across the county. It is generally those schools in the 'sweet spot' of about 30% poorer kids where everyone does well (such as Henry and Oakridge). Otherwise, not so good.

So stop pretending that most of you care about performance of poorer kids.[/quote]

Could you please provide a link to APS middle school SOL data that shows results for all the schools by race? I have been looking for this and haven't been able to find it.

Some years ago I looked up similar data for Arlington elementary schools (SOL results by school by race) and found that the white students performed equally regardless of school. Unfortunately now I can't find this data online but would like to see actual numbers for the middle schools. TIA[/quote]

If you go to this site, you can look up any Virginia school and see SOL results demographic data, etc.: http://schoolquality.virginia.gov/[/quote]

Found it - thank you.

So I looked up 2016-2017 SOLs for Kenmore and Swanson, results for white students only.

Grade 8 English - Reading
Kenmore 95 passed, 49 proficient
Swanson 95 passed, 57 proficient

Grade 8 Mathematics 
Kenmore 88 passed, 83 proficient 
Swanson 95 passed, 78 proficient

Grade 8 Science 
Kenmore 93 passed, 70 proficient 
Swanson 99 passed, 56 proficient

So I found this interesting. Swanson did better in math and science pass rate, although Kenmore students were more "proficient," whatever that means.

One other factor to consider is the overall number of white students per school. Swanson had 846 white students vs Kenmore's 282. I'm no statistician but I think that says to me the white Kenmore students had less room for error to achieve similar results (for example on reading, where both groups had a 95 percent pass rate). At Kenmore, 267 students of the 282 had to pass reading, whereas at Swanson 803 of 845 had to pass to achieve the same result (95 percent). That means 42 white Swanson students did NOT pass while only 15 of the white students at Kenmore didn't pass. Amateur analysis here, but these results are not telling me that white students at an "inferior" school are doing less well than their white peers at high-performing schools. [/quote]

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