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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not sure why anyone would use rating systems like this. Just look at the data yourself. You can download it from the VA DOE and split it by various demographic categories.[/quote]

Are you really not sure?  Did you ever go house hunting?  Do you know anyone who has ever been house hunting[/quote]

Are you joking? Yes, I'm house hunting and I would never use those ratings, and I know many who take the ratings that are less objective with a big heap of salt. If you don't, then that's your poor judgment. I'll be worried about my investment when the schools' test scores are suffering across the board. I use the actual data that the ratings are based on and I can split the data in many ways. Niche, US News, Great Schools etc all have to find novel ways of creating their rankings and scores in order to turn a profit, but these may not align with what folks actually care about in evaluating schools. Use the actual data. You can build your own table here: https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/apex_captcha/home.do?apexTypeId=306#tagline

I would not worry about McLean and the other top pyramids because of some silly GS score that everyone can see is not assessing what people actually care about. Ditto for the others.[/quote]

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