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I am not sure there are any expensive lilly white 99.999% white neighborhoods, maybe you are thinking about southern Virginia where there is less diversity? Every neighborhood in the DC area with a high great school rating tend to be at least 20-40% minority. Thanks for the uneducated stereotype.[/quote]

In NoVa the idea is to live in a place that is 70% white, 30% asian, and 100% high SES, and to point to the asian percentage to show you are not a bigot, while hating and fearing blacks, most hispanics, and poor people of any color.  [/quote]

Don't be stupid, even the whitest school langley and madison still have 10-15% Hispanic or black. [b]No school is 30% Asian[/b].[/quote]

WRONG!

Wootton HS - 34.7% Asian

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04234.pdf[/quote]

I assume what the prior poster meant was that, if there were any schools close to 70% white, they wouldn't be 30% Asian.

In FCPS, there are 19 elementaries, three middle schools and two high schools (Centreville and TJ) that are over 30% Asian, but none is close to 70% white.  One of the 24 has slightly more than 60% white students (Colvin Run).  S[b]o this notion that GS top-ranked schools are close to 70% white/30% Asian is not grounded in reality[/b].

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This racial assumption is not reality, but the strong correlation with family income/test scores/GS rating is accurate. For example, in Arlington there are 7 ES rated "10".  Of those the highest FARM rate is 21%.  Five of the 7 have FARM rates <10%, most of those <5%.  If you look at all the 9 and 10 schools, only one has a FARM rate similar to the average for the county (Long Branch).

The lowest rated schools in Arlington (GS=3 or 4) have FARM rates of 59%-86%.  Those rates of poverty of course are concerning and could suggest a lot of challenges but for a school in the 6-8 range, if I were house-hunting, I wouldn't rule out a great house with a great commute if the breakdown of scores for non-FARM kids showed that affluent kids do fine there (although that would not be the ONLY data point I'd consider in evaluating a school).[/quote]

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