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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One way to better understand the quality of education of one school or another is to perform more granular apples to apple analysis.  Simple averages for standardized state test that GS uses for its ratings only serves to identify which high-schools draw a higher percentage of affluent kids. A better approach is to look at the granular data. When you isolate for race which is proxy a for socioeconomic status there is not much of a disparity between the performance of kids of the same backgrounds across these schools. For example, when you compare average SAT scores for MCPS schools for a larger demographic common to all these schools the GS narrative falls apart and it becomes clear they're not all that different.

Blair 1326
Walter Johnson 1275
Wooton 1262
Churchill 1257
Wheaton 1173
Einstein 1148
Kennedy 1088

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf[/quote]

When most of the few white kids at Blair are in the magnet and from OOB, does that misleading statistic about there scores really speak to the experience of the other 3000 kids who score closer to the bottom of the county and live among pockets of concentrated poverty. That is the real blair, some math wiz stem kid from Chevy Chase was going to do great no matter where he took the test.

Me personally I’ll take a school full of that peer group compared to driving across town to a sketchy area with only a couple class rooms that most of the local kids don’t have access to. You don’t seem to be proclaiming that peer group’s SAT average??? Let me give you a hint, it’s really low but that is the true Blair peer group experience.[/quote]

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