Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on what you look at. If you just go by SAT scores, for the past five years, it's been TJ, then Langley, then McLean, and then (with the order varying from year to year) Madison, Marshall, Oakton and Woodson.

Or you can ignore rankings altogether.

But even with SAT scores, TJ and Langley are off by themselves. McLean is clustered in the middle of the pack with all the other top schools, not separated with TJ and Langley.

TJ 728
Langley 614

Then

Woodson 596
Madison 592
McLean 590
Oakton 588
Marshal 576
Lake Braddock 570

To separate McLean above Woodson and Madison, and with TJ and Langley is just inaccurate.

It is a wonderful, top performing high school, clustered in the middle of several other wonderful, top performing high schools, but it is not in the top 3 of fcps high schools no matter which statistics you are using.

http://www.fcps.edu/cco/pr/satact/2012/table4.pdf

Anonymous wrote:It depends on what you look at. If you just go by SAT scores, for the past five years, it's been TJ, then Langley, then McLean, and then (with the order varying from year to year) Madison, Marshall, Oakton and Woodson.

Or you can ignore rankings altogether.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all of your comments and suggestions. We just put a contract on a nice house in McLean that is in the Langley district. We were torn between 2 houses. One house the would have been in the Mclean district but we just liked the Langley house better. I think our kids would have been fine at either school.

Anonymous wrote:In fact, Langley is closer ranked to Lake Braddock (197), and West Springfield (207) than it is to TJ.

So, the appropriate list would be TJ, followed by Langley and Madison, followed by several other amazing high schools which include Langley, Woodson, Lake Braddock and West Springfield.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am in the Woodson district and recently came across this when researching for my public-or-private decision:

http://www.americaachieves.org/docs/OECD/Middle-Class-Or-Middle-Of-Pack.pdf

This went a long way to convincing me I should be okay with public school:

Remarkably, three non-selective high schools in Fairfax, Virginia are outperforming the averages of virtually every other country in the world and are right up there with Shanghai-China. While two of these high schools serve a more affluent student population, one of Fairfax’s world-class performers—Woodson High School—is much more solidly middle class and has a nearly identical socio-economic rating to Sample High School A. In reading, Woodson’s students outperform students in every country and region in the world except Shanghai-China.

I am assuming that the other two schools are McLean and Langley.

McLean didn't participate in the OECD pilot program; most likely Langley and Oakton.

http://www.fcps.edu/pla/ost/_pisa/pisa_index.shtml

Woodson could only be considered "middle class" by FCPS standards. During the relevant period, it served almost exclusively neighborhoods composed of detached, single-family housing. It's going to become more diverse in a few years due to the boundary changes adopted to relieve the overcrowding at Fairfax HS.

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