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[quote=Anonymous]That does look scary, but consider...

TC's SAT average for white students -- 1720
FCPS SAT average for white students --1715

TC's school-wide averages will always suffer in comparison to most FCPS schools, because TC's student body is 20% white, 40% black, 31% hispanic and 6% Asian.  More importantly, many of the non-white kids at FCPS schools come from middle class families.  Some of Alexandria's non-white kids are middle class too, but many of them come from the vast apparatus of public housing complexes and other affodable housing projects that Alexandria maintains to ease the guilt of its rich, white, liberal population.  So TC's student population is skewed heavily toward LEP and Free/Reduced Lunch population.  Is it ideal to have so many poor students concentrated in one massive high school?  No.  Does it mean that your particular kid will be unable to achieve his potential at TC Williams? No.

One interesting comparison is to look at the AP Test results from TC compared to FCPS high schools.  TC's kids score 3's, 4's, and 5's on AP Tests at a similar rate as the kids at the middle tier of FCPS schools (Lake Braddock, West Springfield, etc.).  That tells me that the kids who are serious about getting a great education at TC Williams can, in fact, get one.  And, by attending a school that has economic diversity, they'll likely gain some street smarts, too.  Not such a bad thing to have...
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