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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In regards to the struggling students mentioned above, TJ used to counsel out struggling students, one reason they were able to keep their stats high. Is TJ still counseling out students?[/quote]
The fact that the cohort that failed the SOL in 10th grade is similarly sized to the cohort that failed it the next year in 11th grade suggests otherwise. That makes sense as counseling out might undermine the demographic shift that the admissions changes were designed to achieve. In the period you reference where counseling out occurred, Asian students made up roughly 70-75% of the incoming freshman class but accounted for roughly 85% of the class by senior year following the net outflow/inflow of students during high school. That may explain why FCPS/TJ changed both 9th and 10th grade admissions policies simultaneously, to minimize the chance of demographic drift occurring during high school.[/quote]

There demographic shift in admissions seems pretty negligible. Sure, instead of 3% of a URM group there's now 4% which is a big improvement I guess.[/quote]
There has been a much larger increase in URM representation than that. In the first year of the admissions change, the URM share rose 15 percentage points. In the latest year, the URM share is 8 percentage points higher than pre-admissions changes. Those are notable shifts.

Pre-admissions change, the share of Black & Hispanic students was 3% in Class 2024.
Post-admissions change, the share of Black & Hispanic students was 18% in Class 2025, 14% Class 2026, 13% Class 2027, and 11% Class of 2028. [/quote]

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