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Less the bottom-half do impact the school by some measures. For example look at the SOL scores. Almost all schools in FCPS had some progress upwards

For TJHSST the pass advanced rate in Geometry  went down 31% from 73% to 42%

Biology and Algebra 2 Pass advanced level went down (but not that much 13 and 10%) from 66% to 53% and from 63% to 53%

These test and results do not matter for people who believe that the best way to find in-nate talent is via un-proctored and un-verified essays. So yes, overall for the top spots/test nationwide the bottom-half does not matter but for the average scores etc. they will.

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Do you have a source for these pass rates?  I was going to say you've buried the lede, but then I saw it was actually at the start of your post.
For TJ to have a 42% pass rate in geometry doesn't speak well for their teaching, or they are admitting very poor performing students who shouldn't be there.  They generally didn't accept kids at TJ who hasn't taken geometry, so 73% could be 8/11 students passing.  42% out of more than 100 says something.
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I have not looked at the SOLs for TJ but you can google the SOL results for 2022 and sort them by school to see the results. They normally include  year or twos past results for comparison. I know I looked at my sons school a few weeks back,.[/quote]

Looked it up, and you are right the pass advanced rate is way down.  Surprised to see TJ had kids taking algebra 1 SOL as well, which dropped from 70 to 29.
TJ had 100% passing SOLs in math subjects.  
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