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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

We know that.

The bar chart that is more insightful is the one that shows MCPS penetration trends; namely showing that [b]whites living in all catchment areas in MoCo are increasingly not attending MCPS. [/b]

From 2000 to 2011:
In top HS areas: went from 68% of whites attending MCPS to 57% whilst being 76% of the catchment area. 
In aggregate: went from 50% of whites attending MCPS to 35% whilst falling only from 60% of pop to 55% of pop. 
In the NE and DCC consortiums: MCPS attendees dropped at 3x the rate as the drop of whites in that catchment area. 
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No, it doesn't show that.

The sentence you're interested in is "Between 2000 and 2011, the percentage of teenagers living in Montgomery County who were white fell from 60% to 54%, while the proportion of white students in MCPS high schools fell from about 50% to 33%." Or, better stated: in 2000, 60% of Montgomery County teenagers were white and 50% of MCPS high school students were white, compared, to 2011, when 54% of Montgomery County teenagers were white and 33% of MCPS high school students were white.

We don't know what the author was counting when he counted "Montgomery County teenagers", given that "teenager" and "high school student" are not synonyms.

We also don't know what happened between 2010-2011 and 2016-2017.

And, if white students are now attending private schools in large numbers, what private schools are they attending? Have the private schools attended by white students in the area increased the number of seats?

And then there's the further question of, so what?[/quote]

Are you able to see the line chart the PPP is referring to?  It seems summarized correctly in the list above. 
It shows MCPS white student decreases in all 3 consortiums being larger than the Mont County white teens decreases in each consortium.

The purple line is the 6 top HS in MCPS, the blue line is all of MCPS (the quote you are referring to is blue dot line and blue solid line stats), the red line is NE consortium, and the green line is DCC.  Solid lines are MCPS white student percentage of total pop over time and the dotted line is MoCo white teens percentage of pop over time.

Yes, it would be fascinating to see this data from 2011-2017. But for now these are the takeaways from 2000-2011 data. 
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