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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have now spent a couple hours plotting GS data points on a graph.  According to what I have so far:

1-there is a direct inverse relationship between the GS score and the percentage of black and hispanic students at the school.
2-there is a direct correlation between the percentage of white and asian students (added together) and the GS score.
3-there is a direct inverse relationship between a school's diversity and the GS score - in other words, schools with a student body that has large numbers of every racial group, as opposed to being dominated by just a few, are actually penalized in the GS scoring system.
4-having a less diverse body raises the GS score.  This seems to be true even if the school is 80% of a traditionally lower-performing minority, as it is the diversity itself that lowers the school's score (since the school is penalized for having gaps between races).

I don't have every school in Fairfax County on there, of course, but I have quite a few and it seems high GS scores indicate not only lack of low-income students, but also ensure lack of racial diversity.  Barring AAP centers, which are artificially balanced, no school with a 9 has any significant percentage of black or hispanic students.[/quote]

Sherlock, did it ever enter into your mind that these schools are in fact better? And that schools with larger number of blacks are not as high performing?[/quote]

Have you ever stopped to think it may be socioeconomic status and not race that is the determining factor?[/quote]

NP but yes. There really aren't that many poor whites and Asians in this area. Go to rural areas and they're there though. I don't blame them. If I was struggling to make ends meet, I'd get out of the DC area.[/quote]

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