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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Langley and McLean are the best, and it's even more telling when you see how many kids from those pyramids are also at TJ. [/quote]

which is again not about school quality....but how rich the families are in those districts[/quote]

Who's to say the affluent aren't moving there in large part because the schools are strong? [/quote]

The affluent ARE moving there because the schools are strong, and the schools ARE strong because the affluent are moving there.

[b]If you really want to know whether a school is doing a good job, however, check and see how well they are educating the sub-groups:  special ed, low income, and English learners.  Even if you don't have a child in one of the sub-groups, this is a good gauge of whether the staff is competent, the administration is strong and the programs are solid.[/b][/quote]

I agree with this. Perhaps we should look at the schools in which the students are performing well and overcoming obstacles.[/quote]

US News doesn't rank schools if the black and Hispanic minority students and the economically challenged students don't achieve certain benchmarks on state tests. The top schools in NoVa do reasonably well at this, although the cohorts of students in those categories at Langley is very small.  [/quote]

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