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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great schools is a really flawed, fairly meaningless measure:

1) The scores are based on comparison in immediate area.  So don't compare MOCO with FCPS via this route.  So the best test-scoring school in a low-scoring district can get a 10, whereas a slightly lower test scoring school in a high scoring district can get a 4.  Even if the school that got a 4 has higher scores than the school that got a 10.

2) For VA, it is based on pass rates of SOL scores which are a crude measure.  Most middle class/UMC families care more about nuanced aspects of schools above that--even percentage of pass-advanced would be more telling.

3) Great schools has been revised so that disparities between low and high performing subgroups lower the score.  The hard part is that in a school system where a good portion of the lowest scorers have English as a second language, you are just going to expect a disparity until their familiarity with the language grows.  So if you have a high performing school, but a segment of low performing recent immigrant 3rd grade students, you are going to get a low score.  You'd get a higher score if the higher performers were more mediocre so there was less of a disparity.

No person with a reasonable way of thinking about schools would focus on Great Schools.  It's a fake realtor tool.[/quote]

Sound advice[/quote]

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