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I find school digger more reliable because its based on exam results. I believe and I'm happy to be proven wrong, that Greatschools is entirely based on the ratings given by individual reviewers - so you could have a bunch of folks plumping it up for you with 5 stars, or some disgruntled parent who goes back 10 times with 2.
schooldigger and greatschools both assign rankings based purely off of state standardized tests, so schools that have a larger percentage of lower income students or students who don't speak English as a first language score worse.
Anonymous wrote:I'm really confused, because my kids' ES test scores actually went up, across the board, for every demographic (and the "gap" is narrower than ever before), yet our school digger score tanked.
This is not true. Especially since the wonkiness of great schools started working against the schools that anyone with any knowledge of the communities--including real estate agents-- knew were far better schools than higher rated schools.
The mosaic district is a tiny sliver of the falls church high population. Most of it is in the 7 corners baily's cross roads area which has a massive population of low income and english as a second language students.