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Old 09-25-2011, 10:31 PM
 
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Best Elementary Schools in Northern Virginia « Virginia Virtucon
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Old 09-26-2011, 05:37 AM
 
Location: Springfield
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Top 100 N.Va. Elementary School Scores on Standards of Learning
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Old 09-26-2011, 06:12 AM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Best schools or schools with the most educated parents? I doubt the schools have much to do with the scores, considering the amount of variation within the same systems.
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Old 09-26-2011, 09:43 AM
 
Location: among the clustered spires
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Best schools or schools with the most educated parents? I doubt the schools have much to do with the scores, considering the amount of variation within the same systems.
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At the least, put the FARMS percentage next to each school. It's easy to get stellar scores at Great Falls ES. Graham Road ES ... 80% FARMS. Someone's doing something good there.
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Old 09-26-2011, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Fairfax County
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At the least, put the FARMS percentage next to each school. It's easy to get stellar scores at Great Falls ES. Graham Road ES ... 80% FARMS. Someone's doing something good there.
And, while there are notes being added to the side, please add a note if the school is an Advanced Academic Programs (AAP) Center. AAP students consistently score Pass Advanced on SOLs.
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Old 09-26-2011, 10:58 AM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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My kids' schoool is on this list, so I'm not being sour grapes here. But, the GT Center schools are a completely different ballgame than non-GT center schools. A perfect example on here is Mosby Woods (#49 on the list). I believe they got their GT Center about 5 years ago so after the 2003 comparison year. Look at their pass advanced score before GT Center 22%. Now look at their pass advanced scores - 61%. What is their pass advanced score without the GT Center kids or at least without the GT Center kids who came from other schools? Then we can see how much they've improved. I know they got a new principal who is supposed to be awesome, and they may have made some other changes that have helped them improve their test scores. But does FCPS think we're stupid enough to believe that the primary reason they have good test scores now is not from the newly-added GT Center? Why yes, I think they do.

I'm curious to find out when other schools got their GT Centers. Willow Springs looks suspect. When did Sunrise Valley get their GT Center? That might be another good example.
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Old 09-26-2011, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Fairfax, VA
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Is this list new? I swear I've seen it already.
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Old 09-26-2011, 11:05 AM
 
Location: New-Dentist Colony
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It's interesting to me that the schools in the very most expensive parts of N. Arlington (e.g., no. 24, Jamestown, and no. 28, Nottingham, both in 22207) didn't do as well as no.1-ranked McKinley (in comfortable-to-affluent but not obscenely wealthy 22205). Clearly, income is not the sole determinant here--though education might still be, because the super-high incomes might be from lobbyists or pharma sales people (long on money but short on education), who probably let their kids vedge in front of the TV or Internet all day and night.

Also, I'm guessing Sunrise Valley Elementary is in Reston. It too would disprove the income-equals-academics theorem, given that it came in at no. 8, well above Ashlawn Elementary, which is no. 29 (and is a stone's throw from McKinley), or (astoundingly) Long Branch Elementary (no. 67), in very tony Lyon Park (N. Arlington).

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Old 09-26-2011, 11:14 AM
 
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Is this list new? I swear I've seen it already.
Personally, I think it was intended to draw traffic to the "Virginia Virtucon" site. For every new 500 visitors, Denton56 moves one degree further to the right.
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Old 09-26-2011, 11:19 AM
 
Location: Fairfax, VA
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Also, I'm guessing Sunrise Valley Elementary is in Reston. It too would disprove the income-equals-academics theorem, given that it came in at no. 8, well above Ashlawn Elementary, which is no. 29 (and is a stone's throw from McKinley), or (astoundingly) Long Branch Elementary (no. 67), in very tony Lyon Park (N. Arlington).
Sunrise Valley draws from a VERY high income area. The part of Reston that is almost in Vienna. Up until this year, they were one of the half-day districts in FCPS. It is not the ghetto by any stretch of the imagination.
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