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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is PP. Sorry, you're right. What I was really thinking of was the small percentage of African Americans - less than 5%. There are far more than 5% at area privates, and many AAs in high level staff and teaching positions as well.

There is also about 30% on FA, versus <5% FARMS for Whitman (which I realize is not apples-apples as FARMS is far more impoverished), but....I definitely did get the sense from my private school tours that they are MUCH more diverse than Whitman. That's not the case with BCC, which has a broader mix of wealthy, upper middle, FARMs, and middle class.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04427.pdf[/quote]

30% on FA is not a good comparison to FARMS. There are definitely Whitman families not on FARMS who could qualify for FA at a private school. Not saying it's a ton of SES diversity but our experience in private school was that there was very little economic diversity as well- in fact less than there is at Whitman.

Our private school had a good base of AA students but very few Asian and Hispanic students. That tends to be the case at many of the private schools. So it depends how you define diversity.[/quote]

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