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BCC is 15% Black and Blair is 24% Black. Nearly all of the Black students at BCC live in Silver Spring and [b]would be assigned to Blair if they lived literally in the next apartment building over.[/b] So why is it that those Black kids at BCC are doing significantly better than kids one block away?

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Even this is not true. There are no buildings zoned to BCC which are next to buildings zoned to Blair. You are probably referring to the Summit Hills apartments at the eastern end of the BCC zone. Some of their buildings are zoned for BCC, and others are zoned for Einstein. None are zoned for Blair.[/quote]
Okay, so why are the Black kids in those buildings doing substantially better than Black kids at Blair?[/quote]

We don't know that they are?

As a population, Black kids do better at B-CC than at Blair. That's true. But, as a population, Black kids at B-CC are wealthier than Black kids at Blair. We actually don't know that Black kids who live in Summit Hills and attend B-CC do better than kids who live in Summit Hills and attend Einstein, or in another complex and attend Blair.

We CAN look at data on Maryland School Report Card, though. If you take literally the first test that comes up (English 10), and control for Black kids who receive FARMS, the scores are identical.

B-CC has a 40% proficiency rate, as does Blair. Technically, B-CC has a 40.4% rate and Blair has a 40.5% rate.

If you run the exact same test for Algebra I, and only look at Black kids receiving FARMS, B-CC does a tiny bit better (19%) than Blair (15%) but that's not a big spread.

So, if you look at poor/working class Black kids, the scores are roughly the same at the two schools. But B-CC's *overall* scores for Black kids are higher because their student body is wealther, including their Black kids. That tells you about demographics, not about quality of education.

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Not really there are very few minorities at BCC which is a GS6 for academics. Further, it's more about SES and those minorities who live in Bethesda are wealthy. BCC does remarkably poor for a school with low FARMS.[/quote]

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