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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jamestown has been the Arlington public elementary school of choice for the rich for decades.  That won't be changing any time soon.  Its test score are off the charts because its population is very wealthy and very privileged.  It is severely lacking in diversity and has a reputation for being super snooty.  Any North Arlington public elementary school provides an equally solid education without all of that.[/quote]

And there are also [i]south[/i] Arlington schools that offer "an equally solid education without all of that" and [i]with[/i] diversity that is absent from most (almost all) north Arlington elementary schools.[/quote]

Diversity isn't inherently a virtue.

And some South Arlington schools aren't very diverse at all. They're majority Hispanic, for example.

The irony is Yorktown HS's demographics most closely match those of Arlington County.[/quote]

Arlington County, but not APS[/quote]

Interesting. Good point! (Assuming this is accurate...)[/quote]

Yorktown 12% kids on free lunch; APS 29% kids free lunch
Yorktown 64% white; APS 44% white
Yorktown 5% black; APS 10% black
Yorktown 15% Hispanic; APS 29% Hispanic

APS neighborhood high schools remain fairly segregated by race; while the overall high school population is 43% white, we have one high school that is 24% white, one that is 44% white, and one that is 64% white.

Jamestown, by the way, is 79% white, compared to 45% of APS elementary students, and only 3% of kids are on free lunch. [/quote]

Now do demographics of Arlington County as a whole. That’s the more significant metric.[/quote]

:roll: Of course it's not.  That's just something people at Yorktown and Yorktown feeders like to say to make themselves feel better about the segregation in the school system. The relevant metric is the demographics of the KIDS in public schools.  Most people in Arlington don't have kids in school.[/quote]

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