2019 SOLs: Tops of the Lists

By John R. Butcher

August 14, 2019 by cranky

To clear the palate after that last post, here are the 25 Virginia schools with the highest pass rates in Reading and Math for the students who are and are not economically disadvantaged.

You’ll notice Fairfax County’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a Governor’s School, at 100% on all four lists. You won’t see Maggie Walker anywhere in the database, albeit the pass rates there would also put it on all four of these lists. Walker also is a Governor’s School, with a four-year program; it issues diplomas to its graduates. But VDOE does not report the SOL scores of the Walker students; those scores go, instead, to artificially inflate the scores of the high schools in the home districts of the Walker students.