Re: Which schools pyramids in FFX county are "desirable"?
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IB Reassessing My Conclusions
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Date: April 24, 2008 11:07AM
thx Wrote:
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> Thanks for the stats- which top school seems to be
> lacking and which top school still superb?
TJ is in a class by itself and I assume you are excluding it from your question.
Excluding TJ, over the past decade the "top schools" in the county, as measured by the performance of their students on SATs, have been Langley, McLean, Woodson, Oakton, Madison, and Lake Braddock.
The test scores of both the "top schools" and county high schools generally were down in 2007 relative to prior years. In announcing the results, FCPS didn't mention this; instead, it focused on four IB schools whose scores had improved over last year.
Of the schools in the "top group," Langley continues to outperform the others, while Madison and Oakton have slipped considerably in recent years.
Of the 25 high schools in the county, the SAT scores of all but five are above the national average. The one horror story is Hayfield, where the average SAT score, after the recent RD of many of its students to South County, is now below 1000.