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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with Matthews and Martel that some of those numbers are way out of wack.

Washington Latin Lower School (41.7 percent)
BASIS Middle School (33.9?percent)
Washington Latin High School (23.9 percent)
Washington Yu Ying elementary school (22.2 percent)

If the pool of students is only 5 - 10% white, it takes some heavy duty self-selection (probable) or something nefarious (unlikely) to get to those percentages. Reminds me of SWS, another school with miraculously high white enrollment (67%).

If nothing else, this could shed some light on comparisons between HRCS and DCPS. If HRCS's have a built in 20-30% boost in high SES enrollment, then those average DC-CAS scores should be that much higher than DCPS, not slightly above par.[/quote]

Whoah whoah whoah.  Where are you getting this 5-10% white?  Most recent Census data shows that DC is now 43.4% white.  http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/11000.html

That's what should be "normal" in terms of a citywide distribution.  Any number under that is disproportionately low.[/quote]

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