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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by paulpauper on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:21PM (#27565470)
>National Merit Scholar

Given how rare this is, this is much more of a function of IQ than school quality. If you fill a school, regardless of quality, with smart kids, grades, ratings, other other benchmarks of quality will probably all go up.

Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by saagarjha on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:04PM (#27566057)
I went to a school where National Merit Scholars were a dime a dozen: student performance there was almost independent of the teaching that they got.