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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Maybe the new metric is better because it tells lower income, ESOL families that your "high performing" Lilly White haven of a school isn't that great for ALL STUDENTS. ”

If the metric measures how good a school did at educating ESL kids compared to other ESL kids and factored that in, that would be reasonable. But it does not. [b]Is is instead comparing those kids to the non-ESL kids at the same school and singing the school for the gap even if the school happens to do a much better job educating ESL kids than other schools do. [/b][/quote]

Yeah, well according to GS, they are doing EXACTLY that and rating your subpar school for doing worse at educating ESOL kids.  Your school's score disparity between advantaged and disadvantaged students is weighed against the State average.  Scores improve if your school shows improvement.

https://www.greatschools.org/gk/ratings-methodology/

Admit it, you people are just mad your houses aren't selling for as high as you'd like.[/quote]

They can say what they like.  Just look at the scores for the different HSes in Fairfax.  Look at the total score, the equity score, and the test score/old score.

The new methodology isn't doing what they say it is and it's unhelpful for families.[/quote]

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