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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take a look at the school culture surveys.  I don't recall where they are, but I found them useful in comparing across schools-- particularly in perceptions of minority students/parents.  There's also someplace (I think it's in that school at a glance site but I haven't checked) that has information on discipline and crime (# times police called to school and whatnot.).

I agree that test scores don't tell you much about instructional quality, but they do tell you [b]if your kid will be surrounded by kids who (whose parents) prioritize education and that kind of thing.  [/b]

(Assume teaching quality is the same across schools, for the most part.)[/quote]

Where "prioritize education" means "are middle class with college educations," and "that kind of thing" also means "are middle class with college educations."[/quote]

That kind of thing seems intended to play on people's fear of desegregation in order to boost real-estate prices in certain areas. It turns out kids go on to great colleges from all over the county not just a few schools. In fact, one of my kids ended up at Blair SMCS, and the other at Wheaton Engineering. Curiously, neither is our home school.[/quote]

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