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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington public high schools are good (The Great Schools ratings are garbage), but college placement from Arlington schools is sub-par.  If your child's 'reach' school is UVa or William & Mary, APS is fine.[/quote]

Where do you find better college placement?  APS seems on par with most of the other equivalent public HS.  [/quote]

McLean, Langley, Madison; and Walt Whitman and BCC in Maryland. 
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If you normalize for socio-economic diversity, I doubt you find any difference.[/quote]

Maybe yes, maybe no.  If you look at the most homogeneous groups in these areas, whites and Asians, it looks like the white kids lag at Yorktown and the Asian kids lag at both Yorktown and W-L.  Here are the SAT scores for white and Asian kids for 2015-16 (the last year APS, FCPS, and MCPS data was available for both groups):

White Students:

Whitman 1917
Langley 1864
McLean 1861
[b]W-L 1856[/b]
B-CC 1841
Madison 1820
[b]Yorktown 1788[/b]

Asian Students

Langley 1988
McLean 1960
Madison 1935
Whitman 1901
[b]Yorktown 1786[/b]
B-CC 1697
[b]W-L 1582[/b]
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