Reply to House budget of $450k. Looking for good schools. Where to buy?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "House budget of $450k. Looking for good schools. Where to buy?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As long as there are apartment units feeding into Edison (think Rose Hill and along Franconia Rd.) or into Hayfield (think Lorton along Rt. 1) -- there will always be significant diversity of color, wealth, and academic motivation.  That is not going to change until the housing style changes.  The same can be said for South Lakes and Herndon.  The HS that don't have any apartments feeding into them will always be wealthier and whiter and have higher scores.

If you look at the test scores for Twain MS, Clermont, Island Creek, Lorton Station, and Hayfield Elementary -- you see that at each school, the white and asian kids have SOL pass rates that are an 8 or 9 out of 10 (compared to all kids in the state).  That's comparable to many of the schools that people are always bragging about.  Hayfield ES and Island Creek ES are the "best" (highest scoring, highest income, lowest FARMS) schools that feed into Hayfield HS.  The other schools that feed into it have much higher FARMS rates and the black and hispanic pass rates are "3" or "4" out of 10 (meaning they are lower than the average pass rate across the state).  It's going to pull the average passing rate down.  It doesn't mean that the school is bad.  It's really about the types of housing (and therefore wealth or lack of wealth) that feed into a school.

Mix of housing = mixed bag of achievement (test scores).[/quote]

If you want to compare apples to apples, the numerical number for each demographic is compared to the state average of that said demographic . Meaning 3 or 4 rating of Hispanics is bad compared to a 9 Hispanic rating elsewhere in the state.

So your theory doesn't hold water.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics