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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One way to better understand the quality of education of one school or another is to perform more granular apples to apple analysis.  Simple averages for standardized state test that GS uses for its ratings only serves to identify which high-schools draw a higher percentage of affluent kids. A better approach is to look at the granular data. When you isolate for race which is proxy a for socioeconomic status there is not much of a disparity between the performance of kids of the same backgrounds across these schools. For example, when you compare average SAT scores for MCPS schools for a larger demographic common to all these schools the GS narrative falls apart and it becomes clear they're not all that different.

Blair 1326                   
Walter Johnson 1275   
Wooton 1262              
Churchill 1257              
Wheaton 1173             
Einstein 1148               
Kennedy 1088

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf[/quote]

It might help to know how good or bad these mean SAT scores are so you can judge whether the differences in performance are big or small.  These scores correspond to the following percentiles for the 2016 SAT exam (which is the one most students in the class of 2017 took per the report cited by the PP).

Blair 1326                   (88th percentile)
Walter Johnson 1275   (82nd percentile)
Wooton 1262              (81st percentile)
Churchill 1257              (80th percentile)
Wheaton 1173             (67th percentile)
Einstein 1148               (62nd percentile)
Kennedy 1088              (50th percentile)[/quote]

Regarding The PP who did the analysis of Blair SAT scores minus the magnet students.   Very interesting analysis and as you point out makes Blair comparable to the W schools and far ahead of the other DCC schools.  [/quote]

But they didn't do the blair scores without just the magnet, they did the Blair score without the magnets or the Black and latino kids. But Blair is a mostly poor and minority school so I am not sure what that cherry picked sat tells us. They also left off the schools that did better on that stat so it just looks like Kool Aid to these eyes.   [/quote]

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