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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on what you look at.  If you just go by SAT scores, for the past five years, it's been TJ, then Langley, then McLean, and then (with the order varying from year to year) Madison, Marshall, Oakton and Woodson.

Or you can ignore rankings altogether. [/quote]

But even with SAT scores, TJ and Langley are off by themselves.  McLean is clustered in the middle of the pack with all the other top schools, not separated with TJ and Langley.

TJ 728
Langley 614

Then

Woodson 596
Madison 592
[b]McLean 590[/b]
Oakton 588
Marshal 576
Lake Braddock 570

To separate McLean above Woodson and Madison, and with TJ and Langley is just inaccurate.

It is a wonderful, top performing high school, clustered in the middle of several other wonderful, top performing high schools, but it is not in the top 3 of fcps high schools no matter which statistics you are using.

http://www.fcps.edu/cco/pr/satact/2012/table4.pdf[/quote]

Um, uually people look at more than just the Reading score, when the SAT has three components (Reading, Math/Writing).  Here's what you get when you do that:

TJ 2186
Langley 1812
McLean 1755
Woodson 1754
Oakton 1753
Madison 1730
Marshall 1702

Clearly, the scores at McLean were virtually identical to Woodson and Oakton last year.  But TJ, followed by Langley and then McLean have had the best combined SAT scores in the county every year since 2003.  That could change this year.  There has been more fluctuation over the years once you got past TJ and Langley.

BTW, I'm not the poster who suggested one should think in terms of (1) TJ, (2) Langley, (3) McLean and (4) everything else.  I think that's rubbish.  [/quote] [/quote]

How come SOL scores differ than SAT by a lot? Maybe SAT scores aren't a good way to compare because the more wealthy can afford prep classes and to take them over and over again?

Besides TJ and Langley there are no real winners all of the others they are all neck and neck. It would be safe to say the other perform well and are pretty equal.

We are very lucky to have such great schools in our area, most places only have 1 for the entire county.

These are the 2013 SOL Results, I also threw in Yorktown, Washington & Lee and Wakefield for good measure

TJ
English	100
Mathematics	100
History	100
Science	100
Graduation and Completion Index	100

Langley
English	99
Mathematics	97
History	99
Science	99
Graduation and Completion Index	99

McLean 
English	98
Mathematics	94
History	97
Science	98
Graduation and Completion Index	97

Woodson 
English	98
Mathematics	94
History	97
Science	98
Graduation and Completion Index	97

Oakton 
English	99
Mathematics	93
History	97
Science	98
Graduation and Completion Index	97

Madison
English	99
Mathematics	94
History	97
Science	98
Graduation and Completion Index	98

Marshall
English	97
Mathematics	95
History	96
Science	98
Graduation and Completion Index	96

Yorktown
English	98
Mathematics	93
History	95
Science	96
Graduation and Completion Index	95

Washington and Lee
English	96
Mathematics	90
History	90
Science	91
Graduation and Completion Index	89

Wakefield
English	94
Mathematics	85
History	84
Science	90
Graduation and Completion Index	80

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