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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you mean "weaker elementary schools"? Or do you mean "elementary schools with lower test scores, fewer white and Asian kids, and more poor kids"? [/quote]
Both.[/quote]

How do you know they're weaker, aside from having fewer white and Asian kids and more poor kids, which is typically associated with lower test scores, even at outstanding schools?[/quote]
Well, for example, you could look at the data and see that 85-95+% of FARMS students at Rachel Carson are achieving proficiency on MSAs, and that in percentage for FARMS students is in the ~70s at Brown Station.  [/quote]

Yes, and the FARMS percentage at Rachel Carson is 16.7% (18.3% ever FARMS), compared to 62.6% (69.3% ever FARMS) at Brown Station. That doesn't mean that Rachel Carson is a better school than Brown Station. It means that poor students do better at low-poverty schools than at high-poverty schools.

http://tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-Schwartz.pdf[/quote]
Low poverty students do better at RC.  High poverty students do better at RC.  White students do better at RC.  Latinos do better at RC.  You can hold steady for pretty much any data point that MCPS reports and RC does better.  This is not an indictment of the teachers or admin, I'm just noting the reality that RC sends a stronger academic group to Lakelands than Brown Station, and hence, Lakelands will score lower than places like Robert Frost, Hoover and Cabin John (which have no schools like Brown Station feeding in).  Sorry if you're offended by the use of the term "weaker," but we're actually saying the same thing, which is that RC/Lakelands/QO probably doesn't fit the criteria that the OP is asking for.[/quote]

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