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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am moving to Maryland soon and I’d like to know which schools have the most diversity. Also, I’m looking for something that has high test scores as well. [/quote]

Depends what you mean by diverse.  My child's school is racially diverse.  He's white and 12% of the student population is white.  But it also comes with a low SES so it is a pretty miserable school.

Contrast to the very diverse small private school he came from, where he was also a racial minority.  But everyone obviously was middle class and higher.  That was an amazing experience and I wish we could have continued it.

If I could have changed anything, I would have avoided low SES schools like the plague.  [/quote]

Schools don't have a low socioeconomic status. What you're talking about, is schools where lots of students have parents who didn't go to college and don't earn a lot of money. And yes, it is common for non-poor people to want to segregate themselves from poor people, [b]at least in the US[/b].[/quote]

Lol.  Unlike the rest of the world where rich and poor live together, linking hands and singing uplifting music?[/quote]

I don't know about linking hands or singing uplifting music, but yes, there are other parts of the world where there is less spatial segregation between rich and poor.[/quote]

I think MoCo actually is that place, pp.

No real gated communities. Growing low income and immigrant population dispersing throughout the county.

I do think socioeconomics trump race. Like others have said, a rainbow of UMC/affluent kids is fabulous, but a school with majority low income kids isn’t an environment anyone wants for their kids. ICYMI: Latinos are moving out of majority-Latino areas in MoCo precisely because they don’t want to be surrounded by other Latinos—particularly in school. They are moving up county in droves. [/quote]

[b]There are a lot of Latinos upcounty. If you were a Latino who wanted to move away from other Latinos, upcounty would not be the place to go[b].[/b][/quote]

This. Look at Gaithersburg and Germantown. Many low SES Latinos. [/quote]

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