Fairfax County Public Schools Ranking (by SOL pass rates)

The Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) tests are 32 standardized tests administered at all public schools in the State of Virginia.

The Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) tests are one way to compare schools

These tests are useful to see how well a school scored compared to its district’s average.  The way the scores are reported is by indicating the percentage of students who passed the test.

For example, a “90” on the Math test means that 90% of the students who took the test, passed it.

These passing rates are one way to identify schools with high academic scores; they are also a useful tool to compare one school vs. another.

This is why we compiled the Fairfax County Public Schools Ranking (by SOL pass rates).

How did we come up with this Fairfax County Public Schools Ranking?

The process was simple (but time-consuming):

1. First, we downloaded a spreadsheet with detailed pass rates for each of the 200+ schools in Fairfax County (from the Virginia Department of Education’s website).
2. Next, for each school’s spreadsheet, we averaged the school’s passing rate in each of the 5 tests administered.  This gave us an overall average for the school.
3. Then, we recorded each school’s average on the SOL pass rate comparison table.

Here is the Average SOL pass rate table (using test results from the 2011-2012 school year).

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To see more details of where each of these schools are, make a note of the High School Pyramid (on the third column of the table) and click on the respective boundary on The Fairfax County Map of High School boundaries (remember to log in first!)

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More Fairfax County Public Schools Ranking Resources

• The Ultimate Ranking© of Fairfax County High Schools (using SOL pass rates, SAT scores, and The Challenge Index®)
• Download a PDF version of this table (coming soon)

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