Why is Wotton HS district favorited by many asian family?

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I looked at the SAT averages by the demographic cohort that was posted here a while back and although Wooton does okay it's hardly the top school at least for kids.It is definitely in the top 5 though.

Raw SAT score means different things to different people and just because an average SAT score is higher does not necessarily translate into college readiness. Ex. a school could have more 504 or Special Needs programs than another.

Lotus prep does a nice analysis of the best high schools in the greater Washington DC area, both private and public, ranked by SAT. https://www.lotusprep.com/best-high-schools-dc/. They weight 3 (meaningful) factors equally: Average SAT (math and critical reading), Average number of Presidential Scholar candidates, Average number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists. Not sure why Poolesville wasn't counted, but it may have just been an oversight? Only two schools were "outliers" (the others "clustered" within a statistically significant range); although it will be interesting to see if Blair drops in future years due to the "lottery system" impact. Wootton was the lowest on this ranking (e.g. fewest National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, Presidential Scholar candidates, SAT average).

Your data seems to be off, here's the summary and citation, but TLDR the largest common cohort to these schools had the following:

Blair 1326
Walter Johnson 1275
Wootton 1262
Churchill 1257

ttps://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Thanks for clearing this up and providing a reliable citation!

Sorry. You folks are easliy fooled, aren't you. Both are accurate. The poster just misread the data. These are two types of documents using very different calculations. Let's use everyone's favorite school (Blair) as an example).

Table B1a. Number of Advanced Placement Exams Taken by MCPS Students and Number and Percentage of Advanced Placement Exam Scores of 3 or Higher in 2018 and 2019 by High School and Race/Ethnicity
2018 86.9%
2019 87.1%
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2019/191219%20HS%20Princ_2019_AP_IB_Exams.dh.pdf

% of Graduates Scoring 3 or Higher on AP Test or Scoring 4 or Higher on IB Test
2019–2020 52.5%
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf
2020-2021 56.5%
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

The difference is the first set of numbers is calculated by the number of exams taken divided by the number of exams 3 or more (passing). The second set of numbers is calculated most likely by student (unless you believe a HS dropped 30% in a single year?).

In other words, MCPS boosted the numbers in Table B1a by showing the number of exams taken and passed (regardless of the number of students taking AP's). As we all know, it's common that a single student takes more than one AP exam. However, when you look at how many students took AP exams versus not at all, that is the better indication of academic success at a High School. That's what the 50'ish% show.

Now, remove the magnet kids from Blair (taking multiple AP exams), and I think you'll get a better picture of the school's non-magnet academic environment overall.

Yes looking at my children's cohort (we aren't asian) I think maybe 8% of the test takers were magnet students so that had very little impact.

I noticed you said "8% of all test takers", not of all students. MCPS only reported tests taken, not how many students took exams (versus the kids that were suspended, dropped, didn't take AP exams, etc.) And now many tests did each "test taker" take? A magnet student taking 3 or more (which is common for Magnet students, some who take 5+), will heavily skew the percentages you'll see posted. Also 100% of the magnet students should be taking 3 or more exams (otherwise why would they be in the magnet program at all?). Remove the magnet numbers from Blair and you'll see the difference.

I previously posted the # of students receiving a passing AP score at RM. It is in the same packet of reports. See upthread. 500 magnet students (at least 100 of those are in-bounds) and the number passing AP exams was in the 900s. So majority of the kids are living inside the boundaries of RM.

If you're going to post RM data, please at least post accurate RM data.
"Richard Montgomery High School’s Magnet Program is an IB continuum model recognized for its excellence throughout the world. Each year the school accepts approximately 125 students from a pool of over 1,000 applicants countywide." (your figure of 500 is for Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and HS. Approximately 20% of the RM class is in Magnet.)
"For the May 2021 AP exams, Richard Montgomery administered 2,078 exams to 1,028 students."
https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/rmhs/ib/2021-2022-rm-electronic.clubs--9.30.21.docx.pdf
"Number of Graduates: 629" "Number of Graduates Scoring 3+ on AP, 4+ on IB: 416"
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04201.pdf

This means about 1/3 (33%) of a RM graduating class doesn't even take an AP/IB exam at all (which is still better than Blair 44%, but worse than Churchill 22%, Poolesville 24%, Whitman 16%, WJ 29%, Wootton 22%).

Yes, AP exams are administered to all grades, hence the 500 students. You are having trouble with data yourself. If you read what you posted above, it says that approximately 1/3 did not pass, not that they did not take an AP or IB exam.

Your whole premise is bizarre. You trashed RM as a lower tier school. No one has disputed that RM has many, many ELL, diverse and low income students. Go upthread and you will see the data presented. I would argue that given the population at RM, the performance on AP/IB shows that the school does a great job. So, you then argued that their stats were all due to the magnet students, so again, I posted counter information that the majority of students passing these exams at RM are in-bounds. Move to Wootton. Knock yourself out.