Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Not credible -- if you look at their methodology, they disqualified several schools on technicalities. If you have a small cohort that does poorly (in Madison's case, the only disadvantaged kids are also ESL kids, and they were disqualified. It is a small cohort, but enough to bring it down).

Looks like a really solid list.

Really, the #5-10 slots could be interchangeable with about 10 different fcps high schools.

Exactly what happens with Fairfax High. The lower income cohort effects great school ratings but Madison and Fairfax are obviously still great schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Not credible -- if you look at their methodology, they disqualified several schools on technicalities. If you have a small cohort that does poorly (in Madison's case, the only disadvantaged kids are also ESL kids, and they were disqualified. It is a small cohort, but enough to bring it down).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By what criteria? This is serious. Performance? Performance Normalized to Demographics? Band? Football team? Girls Sports?

Performance: use SAT scores
Performance normalized to demographics: harder
Band: Clearly Madison, Mclean, TJ, then everyone else
Football: Westfields then everyone else
...

TJ band parent here.

Nice to see them recognized for tenon-academic things. OMG do those kids work in band.

I am PP and a Madison Band Parent. I was impressed by your show last year. (and chuckled when in the BOA Newark Regional, when TJ was anounced as a finalist, I heard a cry of "Nerds!" from some anonymous band

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Might as well stack them by F/R lunch rate. Seriously, this is stupid. Show me a poor school that is beating the odds and I will be impressed.

W-L is 29% economically disadvantaged, 58% minority

Love the smack down.

Perhaps W-L is punching above its weight. Or perhaps it benefits from transfers from Yorktown and Wakefield seeking out the IB program. If you have a number of students transferring in exclusively for an advanced program then it will probably improve school performance, despite a raised F/R lunch rate (and not exceedingly high - remember, Stuart not far away in Fairfax, has 67% F/R lunch rate). Not trying to slight W-L, but there are a lot of factors involved.

Some schools are stuck in a poverty trap because education first families avoid them. This causes them to sink further every year.

Anonymous wrote:1. TJ
2. The school my house is zoned for
3-9. Don’t care
10. The school I think is probably better than our school that I want to disparage

I agree with this. Except #2 is a secret, because I don't want everyone else to know about it and move in bounds and change it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Might as well stack them by F/R lunch rate. Seriously, this is stupid. Show me a poor school that is beating the odds and I will be impressed.

W-L is 29% economically disadvantaged, 58% minority

Love the smack down.

APS lets W-L but not Yorktown offer both AP and IB.

So W-L gets transfers from Yorktown and makes it to #10, while richer Yorktown doesn’t get transfers and isn’t ranked. Slow clap.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

But the really rich schools aren’t ranked, right?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Might as well stack them by F/R lunch rate. Seriously, this is stupid. Show me a poor school that is beating the odds and I will be impressed.

W-L is 29% economically disadvantaged, 58% minority

Love the smack down.

1. TJ
2. The school my house is zoned for
3-9. Don’t care
10. The school I think is probably better than our school that I want to disparage

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Might as well stack them by F/R lunch rate. Seriously, this is stupid. Show me a poor school that is beating the odds and I will be impressed.

DP. If you stacked by f/r rates some of the schools that didn’t make the latest US News cut (Madison and Yorktown) would be included and some that did (Marshall and Washington-Lee) would be excluded. But, even then, you’d need to recognize there are more rich kids at Marshall and Washington-Lee than at many other schools in NoVa with lower f/r rates.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Might as well stack them by F/R lunch rate. Seriously, this is stupid. Show me a poor school that is beating the odds and I will be impressed.

W-L is 29% economically disadvantaged, 58% minority

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Might as well stack them by F/R lunch rate. Seriously, this is stupid. Show me a poor school that is beating the odds and I will be impressed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 10 for the state of VA are:

#1 TJ
#2 George Mason
#3 Langley
#4 Open (Richmond)
#5 McLean
#6 Oakton
#7 Woodson
#8 Marshall
#9 West Springfield
#10 Washington Lee

(US News)

Lake Braddock is #11, so if you remove the Richmond school (#4) you get the top ten high schools in northern VA.

Anonymous wrote:Looks like rankings based on achievement.

...of rich kids. Versus not so rich and poor.