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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I came up with a meta ranking, based on a composite of SAT scores, Great Schools, US News, School Digger, and the Washington Post Challenge Index.  The top 10 are:

TJ
McLean
Langley 
George Mason
Oakton
Yorktown
Woodson
West Springfield
Robinson
Madison

(followed by Marshall, Lake Braddock, Chantilly, and W-L).

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And for those who want to see the correlation with FARMS:

TJ - 1.8%
McLean - 8.7%
Langley - 1.8%
George Mason - 8.5%
Oakton - 12.8%
Yorktown - 14.6%
Woodson - 11.7%
West Springfield - 12.9%
Robinson - 10.7%
Madison - 10.4%
Marshall - 17.7%
Lake Braddock - 16.3%
Chantilly - 16.9%
W-L  - 34.2%[/quote]

Right. I hope no one is delusional enough to think there’s anything inherently good about these schools. You take the kids from Langley and stick them in Mount Vernon and Mount Vernon goes from the worst school to the best school, and vice versa. It’s  all about the student and the family they come from. The actual schools don’t make a difference. [/quote]

Yes, the students, teachers, and surrounding communities make a bigger difference than buildings.  Few would suggest otherwise, although better physical plants may contribute at the margins to selecting a neighborhood.[/quote]

Right, I’m including the teachers, staff, etc., not just the buildings. The teachers at Stuart aren’t any better or worse than the ones at Langley. They all work for FCPS and follow the same curriculum. There are good teachers, counselors, etc. as well as bad ones at every school and they all come and go. So what I meant is that if you literally took the kids from Langley and put them in Stuart with the Stuart teachers, staff, surrounding community, Stuart would become a top ten school. [/quote]

That’s a hypothesis with a lot of assumptions, some clearly incorrect.  Neither the curriculum nor the pace at which it is followed is uniform among NoVa high schools. Nor is teacher recruitment, satisfaction, or retention.  It seems that perhaps all you really want to establish is that there are some good teachers and administrators in lower-rated schools, and again few would dispute that.  [/quote]

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