"Is MCPS losing its edge?"

[Anonymous]

'Is MCPS losing its edge?"

College Admissions data
Cool school spaces

MoCo360 / Bethesda Magazine article

[Anonymous]

My kid attends Rockville HS. According to MCPS data, the average Math SAT score at our HS in 22/23 was 486. That is astonishingly bad.

Clearly MCPS is not preparing our kids for college.

[Anonymous]

Demographics are destiny.

[Anonymous]

First of all only the top 2 W schools are the well regarded MCPS schools. MCPS overall was not uniformly good.

Second SAT and ACT scores are a combo of the students studying and parents paying for tutoring. So scores good or bad have little to do with the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid attends Rockville HS. According to MCPS data, the average Math SAT score at our HS in 22/23 was 486. That is astonishingly bad.

Clearly MCPS is not preparing our kids for college.

And conversely, kids need to come to school, prepared to learn. Is that the case in our schools? All our schools? More funding will not fix interest in learning, attitude, and values.

[Anonymous]

It never had an edge. They need to get back to basics.

[Anonymous]

Churchill avg SAT score is 1,300.

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BTW, image is a clickable link to online magazine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid attends Rockville HS. According to MCPS data, the average Math SAT score at our HS in 22/23 was 486. That is astonishingly bad.

Clearly MCPS is not preparing our kids for college.

And conversely, kids need to come to school, prepared to learn. Is that the case in our schools? All our schools? More funding will not fix interest in learning, attitude, and values.

The BOE needs more funding for pet projects, not education. They need to get back to basics, partner with parents, and hold students accountable. Bring back textbooks, books, and more.

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Anonymous wrote:Churchill avg SAT score is 1,300.

How many parents paid for tutors? And, I'd expect higher given the demographics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First of all only the top 2 W schools are the well regarded MCPS schools. MCPS overall was not uniformly good.

Second SAT and ACT scores are a combo of the students studying and parents paying for tutoring. So scores good or bad have little to do with the schools.

People love to roll out this generalization, but it is not true (perhaps in your household it is).

My student was never tutored, for pay or free.
He looked at the SAT paper booklet and did a free online review the evening prior to the exam.
Scored in the 1400's on his first try. Not excellent by DCUM standards, but pretty good for doing none of the above, as you imply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Demographics are destiny.

The metrics that matter are how the school's scores per demographic compared to other schools around the county, state, and country.
Analysis of variance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It never had an edge. They need to get back to basics.

It did in the 60s and 70s.

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Look at demographics, compare whites and asians to blacks and hispanics

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all only the top 2 W schools are the well regarded MCPS schools. MCPS overall was not uniformly good.

Second SAT and ACT scores are a combo of the students studying and parents paying for tutoring. So scores good or bad have little to do with the schools.

People love to roll out this generalization, but it is not true (perhaps in your household it is).

My student was never tutored, for pay or free.
He looked at the SAT paper booklet and did a free online review the evening prior to the exam.
Scored in the 1400's on his first try. Not excellent by DCUM standards, but pretty good for doing none of the above, as you imply.

My college friends who went to law school did this with the LSAT. They did no prep and scored in the high 90s percentile. One of them even went out for happy hour the night prior.