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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][/quote] Some of the ratings (Great Schools, US News, etc.) increasingly focus on how minorities and low-income students at a school perform.

White kids in APS, particularly at Washington-Lee, do quite well.  Minority students in APS, however, tend to under-perform compared to their peers in other jurisdictions, so you end up with Yorktown, W-L and Wakefield only rated 5, 4, and 3 by Great Schools.  [/quote]

This is also why other schools in the area have dropped in the Great Schools ranking.  They recently adjusted the ranking methodology to factor how minorities fair at the school.  McLean HS is a good example - as the GS ranking is now 7/10.  Funny how in US News and other rankings claim schools like these are among the top 1% of High School's in the NATION (that's out of roughly 32,000 PUBLIC High Schools) based on test scores etc and then Great Schools says "Meh, you're a 7/10" because a small portion of the student body under performs the majority (though I'm certain some will take offense to putting it that bluntly).  Great Schools also ranks based on state/region which not everyone realizes - so they mistakenly think a 9/10 school in Montana is the same effectively as a 9/10 school in Northern Virginia.  As someone who has taught at pubic schools in MD and VA I find the Great Schools rating rather misleading to the uninformed.[/quote]

All that revamped GS scoring  does is reward further segregation in schools. Why settle for a 7 school, when you could simple push historically underperforming populations out of your district. 
Unintended consequences. They’re a bitch.[/quote]

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