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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yorktown high school ranked #585 in US News. I grew up in an area that wasn’t as high cost but my high school was ranked under 200. It’s depressing to pay this much for substandard schools.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/arlington-county-public-schools/yorktown-high-school-20365[/quote]

US News says they rate over 24,000 high schools. So being #585 puts it in the top 2.5% of all high schools in the country. I can live with that. And, I would guess that there's not really any substantive difference between most schools within hundreds of each other in the rankings. As a PP said the top schools are generally gifted magnet schools. Below that are the mostly indistinguishable affluent neighborhood high schools.[/quote]

Your standards are pretty low. Arlington is approximately the 5th richest county in the country (and remember that includes south arlington which pulls the average down). Having your best high school ranked 585 for such an affluent area definitely makes arlington an outlier in a bad way. [/quote]

What does that slightly lower ranking mean though? In what way are the schools lacking? 
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Well you can go to the us news website and look at how the rankings are determined but it is largely measures of college readiness and performance on state assessments. This issue pops up frequently in this forum and defenders of Arlington never have a good explanation for why such a wealthy county has underperforming high schools. Look, every area has its advantages and disadvantages: Arlington has good access to jobs and good commutes to DC. But its schools are not as good as they should be and I think the defensiveness on the issue (rather than acknowledging it and working to fix it) doesn’t help. [/quote]

So you just come on a criticize without providing any solutions or ways to fix it. Thanks. You're part of the problem. Thanks for the lecture now try to give some ways to improve it instead of flicking your finger around. [/quote]

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