Einstein now a 7/10 on GS?

[Anonymous]

Anyone else notice that Einstein has jumped to a 7/10 on GS? We are in that zone but kids still in elementary so don’t really have a lot of insight (other than anecdotes from neighbors who are happy with the school for their kids). Happy to see the jump, of course, but also curious as to the factors that have led to it. Any current parents with insight?

[Anonymous]

SES of students has gone up as Kensington and adjacent SS have become more popular for UMC households, probably. That's all great schools measures.

[Anonymous]

Great schools mean nothing. Talk to students and parents at the school. Most are reasonably happy. If anything the jump is probably due to the jump in housing prices.

[Anonymous]

Whether the rating is high or low, Great Schools is meaningless to me.

[Anonymous]

No f'king way. it says more about GS than the school.

[Anonymous]

GS is trash

[Anonymous]

Gs ranks schools high with rapes and assaults. What does that tell you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice that Einstein has jumped to a 7/10 on GS? We are in that zone but kids still in elementary so don’t really have a lot of insight (other than anecdotes from neighbors who are happy with the school for their kids). Happy to see the jump, of course, but also curious as to the factors that have led to it. Any current parents with insight?

For useful info, request a report of all the time va police have been called to the school.

[Anonymous]

GS ratings reflect the lack of economic diversity at a school. I've always liked Einstein, but this it's just as good as it ever was. There are plenty of high-achieving students there and the same kid can do as well there as they would at any MCPS HS.

[Anonymous]

I like Einstein quite a bit, and I think GS is nonsense all around, including when it shows predominantly white/Asian, overwhelmingly UMC/wealthy, schools as the "winners" in some deranged competition.

With that said, there are a few ways in which Einstein seems to be doing well. Knowing that GS weights how well historically marginalized groups do compared to the state average, I looked at the "equity" section.

On almost every metric, Black, Latino, and Native American kids are outperforming the state average, sometimes by quite a bit. However, I do think MCPS is fudging the numbers a little bit here (not just at AEHS) because the metric is tracking how many kids "take" an AP or IB class, not how many kids pass the class or pass the test.

The one AEHS metric that would give me pause as a parent is the percentage of chronic absences, which is above the state average for every single demographic group.

[Anonymous]

Honestly who cares. GS just tells you where the higher SES areas are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly who cares. GS just tells you where the higher SES areas are.

Exactly and it punishes diversity!

[Anonymous]

I also think you need to take GS with a grain of salt, but Einstein is also our “home” school and neighbors seem to like it. Our kids are still a few years out from HS and I have no idea if the boundaries will change before then. Our neighborhood has turned over a lot in the last 15 years or so as older residents sold their houses to young families, I guess that’s partly why the school is so overcrowded now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also think you need to take GS with a grain of salt, but Einstein is also our “home” school and neighbors seem to like it. Our kids are still a few years out from HS and I have no idea if the boundaries will change before then. Our neighborhood has turned over a lot in the last 15 years or so as older residents sold their houses to young families, I guess that’s partly why the school is so overcrowded now!

This is the big reason. There were a good chunk of original owners who left, moved or died and it was reasonably priced and the location is great. So, lots of families moved in. Sadly housing prices are getting absurd for what these houses are and the flippers are here building the $1 million dollar houses which are selling and bringing up the prices which impacts gs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gs ranks schools high with rapes and assaults. What does that tell you?

there are rapes and assaults in all high schools.