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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at Blair overall, can you really blame U.S. News?  Their numbers (outside of SMAC) stink.  The Magnet was supposed to "raise up" Blair for Silver Spring, but instead it's just a bad HS overall with an ineffective Magnet.  A lot of parents in "W's" are just keeping their kids at their home school and tutoring on the side, so now AEI has egg all over their face for screwing up again.  MCPS can try bussing for equity, but we'll see how that works out at the next board election.[/quote]

That's strange when I look at the SAT average for the largest cohort common to Blair and the W's Blair scores higher.

Blair 1326
Walter Johnson 1275
Wootton 1262
Churchill 1257

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf
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Table A.8
[b]The "Blair 1326" SAT score is the average for "White" students at Blair [/b]
The average SAT score for "Black or African American" at Blair is 1032 
The average SAT score for "Hispanic/Latino" at Blair is 1037 
The average SAT score for "Asian" at Blair is 1290 
The average SAT score for "2 or more races" at Blair is 1324

Table A.6
[b]The average SAT score for all Blair students who took the test is 1142.[/b][/quote]

What's interesting to me is that, with a few outliers, scores are pretty static across schools by race. Black kids do about as well at Blair as they do at most of the Ws, except Wootton where they do worse than expected and Whitman where they do very well, which I'm guessing is a function of wealth. [/quote]

Any school <5% of a demographic group lacks sufficient numbers from which to draw meaningful data[/quote]
Also, a lot of the  URM kids at Whitman are in a different SES class than the majority of URM kids at Blair. That also makes a difference in the test scores.[/quote]

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