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Anonymous wrote:OP here - thank you for your response. Agree about looking for diverse neighborhoods and looking at the school demographics, which we will do. In our personal experience, some schools may be essentially "segregated" across, say cultural or ethnic lines, etc. and we are wondering about schools that are at least somewhat or very successful at bridging gaps.

Great question but I don't have a good answer for you. FCPS is a huge district with lots of high schools. Depends on the type of racial diversity your looking for. For example Lee will have many Latinos while Chantilly quite a few Asians. Maybe Robinson or West Springfield if your looking for a more even mix of groups? Probably not WT Woodson or Lake Braddock.

Why not Woodson or Lake Braddock? They seem to have somewhat similar percentages of minority students. Is the culture less inclusive?

Lake Braddock is a good bit more diverse than Woodson. The student body at Lake Braddock mirrors that in Fairfax County as a whole. Woodson is about 83% white/Asian and less than 5% AA.

Ok, yeah. I was including Asian as minorities, so it's a little more diverse, at least ethnically. It seems like most houses in the Woodson district are in a similar price range. I would think, as a PP suggested, that this would lead to less segregation, since everyone at the school is in alike in another way. Maybe not? Those who are familiar with Woodson - are the Asian students mostly East Asian, or are there sizeable populations of South Asian and Middle Eastern students as well?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - thank you for your response. Agree about looking for diverse neighborhoods and looking at the school demographics, which we will do. In our personal experience, some schools may be essentially "segregated" across, say cultural or ethnic lines, etc. and we are wondering about schools that are at least somewhat or very successful at bridging gaps.

Great question but I don't have a good answer for you. FCPS is a huge district with lots of high schools. Depends on the type of racial diversity your looking for. For example Lee will have many Latinos while Chantilly quite a few Asians. Maybe Robinson or West Springfield if your looking for a more even mix of groups? Probably not WT Woodson or Lake Braddock.

Why not Woodson or Lake Braddock? They seem to have somewhat similar percentages of minority students. Is the culture less inclusive?

Lake Braddock is a good bit more diverse than Woodson. The student body at Lake Braddock mirrors that in Fairfax County as a whole. Woodson is about 83% white/Asian and less than 5% AA.