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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did my research before we bought. I refused to pay top dollar for any unranked school. We decided between McLean and Oakton. I’m sorry, actually I am, if you overpaid to be in “Madison Country.” [/quote]

That has to be one of the dumbest statements ever. There are plenty of other rankings besides US News. And if you’re so beholden to rankings, it must have been especially distressing to see the slide in Oakton’s SAT scores.  Are you a kid just looking for an excuse not to finish your homework?[/quote]

If you look at Madison, they had an influx of non-english speakers.  The non-english speakers did not do as well on the SOL's.  There were not many of them, but enough to define a cohort.  The cohort scored 30 points lower than the school as a whole and 25 points lower than any other defined cohort.  (35 point below Asians/whites.).  The rules of ranking eliminated madison because of the difference in the cohorts.

If you look at the numbers, overall Madison would have been the second or third place school if they were not excluded because of the new rule.

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So basically, if you exclude all the low scoring kids at your school, your scores are RIGHT there at the top[/quote]

DP.  What PP was saying was that, if the US News methodology was only based on a "college readiness" score based on the percentage of students taking and passing AP exams, Madison would have ranked second in the state in the latest US News rankings  (with a 78.1% college readiness index vs. 78.0% for McLean).

The US News methodology has an additional filter based on how low-income and minority students at various schools perform.  It's a non-issue for TJ and Langley, which have virtually no low-income students.  Every other high school in the county runs the risk of getting kicked out of the US News ratings if its low-income or minority students fall below the state average.  That was an issue for Madison in the latest US News rankings.  It was not an issue for McLean, Oakton or Woodson.  At a PP mentioned, the latest US News ratings didn't include most IB schools because they had a problem getting access to the IB scores.  Schools like W-L that offer both AP and IB were ranked, but IB-only schools like Marshall and South Lakes were not. [/quote]

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