Where do you consider MCPS high schools on a scale of good-bad

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DP here. I;m thinking the same thing. How do you equate ESOL to FARMS?

If you're DCUM? By putting both categories in a group consisting "THOSE people".

Because white people from Merica can't possibly be poor.

Certainly white & US-born people can be poor -- and indeed are. But not, as a rule, in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 2019. Most of the white & US-born people here, now, are not poor, and most of the poor people here, now, are not white & US-born.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to base your ratings on something, at least do it by graduation rates. You can come up with your own tiers from here.

1. Walt Whitman High (97.9 percent)
2. Thomas S. Wootton High (97.8 percent)
3. Winston Churchill High (97.4 percent)
4. Poolesville High (96.2 percent)
5. Walter Johnson High (95.8 percent)
6. Quince Orchard High (95.6 percent)
7. Northwest High (94.95 percent)
8. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High (94.42 percent)
9. Damascus High (93.98 percent)
10. Sherwood High (93.89 percent)
11. Richard Montgomery High (92.24 percent)
12. Clarksburg High (91.52 percent)
13. Paint Branch High (90.55 percent)
14. James Hubert Blake High (90.21 percent)
15. Montgomery Blair High (86.21 percent)
16. Col. Zadok Magruder High (89.59 percent)
17. Springbrook High (87.83 percent)
18. Seneca Valley High (86.21 percent)
19. Rockville High (86.02 percent)
20. Watkins Mill High (84.5 percent)
21. Albert Einstein High (81.93 percent)
22. John F. Kennedy High (81.22 percent)
23. Northwood High (79.36 percent)
24. Gaithersburg High (77.39 percent)
25. Wheaton High (77.36 percent)

Eh, I went to a small rural high school that had a 99.9 percent graduation rate (low FARMS rate too), and something like 90% of us went to college in the fall. So I guess you could say we were a fantastic high school. But then I would also tell you that there were no AP classes, very few kids got to calculus, no National Merit Scholars, I was in honors English classes the entire time and only read one complete novel in four years, few kids did 4 years of foreign languages, there were few specialized courses beyond the basic history, math, English, sciences, we had no rigorous instruction in writing papers, and most of the schools that students headed out to were community colleges or some local branches of the state university system. Very, very few top tier schools, probably 2-3 per class (by which I mean a school like Notre Dame).

So you know, there are different ways of saying how excellent a school is. I'd take my child's amazing high school education at Blair with its 86.21% graduation rate any day over my 99.9% graduation rate high school. It's 10x more rigorous than what I experienced.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I have a kid at Wheaton and we are not low income. And honestly it is (so far) great.

Didn't wheaton get the former science coach from Blair, and they recently won some science competition. Most of the HSs seem to have some interesting programs, so if your child is into it, I think they can do well in most of the HS. However, I do think it's important for a student to have a peer cohort.

In which high schools do academically-motivated students not have a peer cohort, and how do you know?

In schools that have a lower % of high achieving students, it's much harder to find a peer cohort that you can also be friends with. The greater the diversity, the greater chance most kids have in finding their peer group.

I don't live in a W cluster. We chose RM for its diversity. I'm sure most schools have varying amounts of high achieving students, but when the numbers dwindle, it's just harder to find.

So now it's not just "there has to be a peer cohort!" but also "there has to be a large peer cohort because otherwise you might not be able to find friends!!!"? How large does this peer cohort have to be, in your opinion? Keeping in mind that all of the MCPS high schools, even the small ones, are large.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I have a kid at Wheaton and we are not low income. And honestly it is (so far) great.

Didn't wheaton get the former science coach from Blair, and they recently won some science competition. Most of the HSs seem to have some interesting programs, so if your child is into it, I think they can do well in most of the HS. However, I do think it's important for a student to have a peer cohort.

In which high schools do academically-motivated students not have a peer cohort, and how do you know?

In schools that have a lower % of high achieving students, it's much harder to find a peer cohort that you can also be friends with. The greater the diversity, the greater chance most kids have in finding their peer group.

I don't live in a W cluster. We chose RM for its diversity. I'm sure most schools have varying amounts of high achieving students, but when the numbers dwindle, it's just harder to find.

How hard is this though?

Just be friends with the couple dozen kids that you always see in your AP classes

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Anonymous wrote:PPs can say what you want, no one is moving to a SV neighborhood so their kid can experience diversity, even though it’ll be (arguably) the nicest school in the county (bc it’s the newest).

People don’t like diversity or low income. But they like to pretend they do, then make an excuse about how they ended up in a good neighborhood “Well my parents bought this house in the 90’s and we wanted to save for a family soooo...”

This is such an odd thing to say. People are moving into areas zoned for Seneca Valley High School all the time. There are currently about 1,200 students at Seneca Valley High School, almost all of whom (if not all) live in areas zoned for Seneca Valley High School. Maybe you meant to say, "People I know"?

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I have a kid at Wheaton and we are not low income. And honestly it is (so far) great.

Didn't wheaton get the former science coach from Blair, and they recently won some science competition. Most of the HSs seem to have some interesting programs, so if your child is into it, I think they can do well in most of the HS. However, I do think it's important for a student to have a peer cohort.

In which high schools do academically-motivated students not have a peer cohort, and how do you know?

In schools that have a lower % of high achieving students, it's much harder to find a peer cohort that you can also be friends with. The greater the diversity, the greater chance most kids have in finding their peer group.

I don't live in a W cluster. We chose RM for its diversity. I'm sure most schools have varying amounts of high achieving students, but when the numbers dwindle, it's just harder to find.

How hard is this though?

Just be friends with the couple dozen kids that you always see in your AP classes

You are ignorant if you think these "low tier" schools only have a couple of dozen kids in AP classes. But continue with your nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I have a kid at Wheaton and we are not low income. And honestly it is (so far) great.

Didn't wheaton get the former science coach from Blair, and they recently won some science competition. Most of the HSs seem to have some interesting programs, so if your child is into it, I think they can do well in most of the HS. However, I do think it's important for a student to have a peer cohort.

In which high schools do academically-motivated students not have a peer cohort, and how do you know?

In schools that have a lower % of high achieving students, it's much harder to find a peer cohort that you can also be friends with. The greater the diversity, the greater chance most kids have in finding their peer group.

I don't live in a W cluster. We chose RM for its diversity. I'm sure most schools have varying amounts of high achieving students, but when the numbers dwindle, it's just harder to find.

How hard is this though?

Just be friends with the couple dozen kids that you always see in your AP classes

You are ignorant if you think these "low tier" schools only have a couple of dozen kids in AP classes. But continue with your nonsense.

You are so ready to be angry that you don't understand that we agree. Dozens of kids is enough of a large group to make friends.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I have a kid at Wheaton and we are not low income. And honestly it is (so far) great.

Didn't wheaton get the former science coach from Blair, and they recently won some science competition. Most of the HSs seem to have some interesting programs, so if your child is into it, I think they can do well in most of the HS. However, I do think it's important for a student to have a peer cohort.

In which high schools do academically-motivated students not have a peer cohort, and how do you know?

In schools that have a lower % of high achieving students, it's much harder to find a peer cohort that you can also be friends with. The greater the diversity, the greater chance most kids have in finding their peer group.

I don't live in a W cluster. We chose RM for its diversity. I'm sure most schools have varying amounts of high achieving students, but when the numbers dwindle, it's just harder to find.

How hard is this though?

Just be friends with the couple dozen kids that you always see in your AP classes

So can we all agree that in every MOCO HS, a bright and motivated student will be able to find a good-sized peer group that is similar to them? If so, then all MOCO High Schools are pretty equal as all offer opportunities for advancement, honors classes, AP, etc. Of course magnets are the exception.

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Yes, it's tiring to keep defending our choice in schools. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to base your ratings on something, at least do it by graduation rates. You can come up with your own tiers from here.

1. Walt Whitman High (97.9 percent)
2. Thomas S. Wootton High (97.8 percent)
3. Winston Churchill High (97.4 percent)
4. Poolesville High (96.2 percent)
5. Walter Johnson High (95.8 percent)
6. Quince Orchard High (95.6 percent)
7. Northwest High (94.95 percent)
8. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High (94.42 percent)
9. Damascus High (93.98 percent)
10. Sherwood High (93.89 percent)
11. Richard Montgomery High (92.24 percent)
12. Clarksburg High (91.52 percent)
13. Paint Branch High (90.55 percent)
14. James Hubert Blake High (90.21 percent)
15. Montgomery Blair High (86.21 percent)
16. Col. Zadok Magruder High (89.59 percent)
17. Springbrook High (87.83 percent)
18. Seneca Valley High (86.21 percent)
19. Rockville High (86.02 percent)
20. Watkins Mill High (84.5 percent)
21. Albert Einstein High (81.93 percent)
22. John F. Kennedy High (81.22 percent)
23. Northwood High (79.36 percent)
24. Gaithersburg High (77.39 percent)
25. Wheaton High (77.36 percent)

Eh, I went to a small rural high school that had a 99.9 percent graduation rate (low FARMS rate too), and something like 90% of us went to college in the fall. So I guess you could say we were a fantastic high school. But then I would also tell you that there were no AP classes, very few kids got to calculus, no National Merit Scholars, I was in honors English classes the entire time and only read one complete novel in four years, few kids did 4 years of foreign languages, there were few specialized courses beyond the basic history, math, English, sciences, we had no rigorous instruction in writing papers, and most of the schools that students headed out to were community colleges or some local branches of the state university system. Very, very few top tier schools, probably 2-3 per class (by which I mean a school like Notre Dame).

So you know, there are different ways of saying how excellent a school is. I'd take my child's amazing high school education at Blair with its 86.21% graduation rate any day over my 99.9% graduation rate high school. It's 10x more rigorous than what I experienced.

+1 Basing a list on one variable is stupid. Someone posted the niche list upthread which is far more rigorous. Even Great Schools is better than this, because it looks at composition of the student body.

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Great schools rankings are as follows

Churchill-10
BCC-9
Poolesville-9
WJ-9
Wootton-9
Damascus-8
Whitman-8
Northwest-7
Quince Orchard-8
Sherwood-7
Montgomery Blair-6

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Anonymous wrote:Great schools rankings are as follows

Churchill-10
BCC-9
Poolesville-9
WJ-9
Wootton-9
Damascus-8
Whitman-8
Northwest-7
Quince Orchard-8
Sherwood-7
Montgomery Blair-6

where are the rest of the schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Great schools rankings are as follows

Churchill-10
BCC-9
Poolesville-9
WJ-9
Wootton-9
Damascus-8
Whitman-8
Northwest-7
Quince Orchard-8
Sherwood-7
Montgomery Blair-6

where are the rest of the schools?

Over on the sides of the maps, where be dragons.

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Anonymous wrote:Great schools rankings are as follows

Churchill-10
BCC-9
Poolesville-9
WJ-9
Wootton-9
Damascus-8
Whitman-8
Quince Orchard-8
Northwest-7
Sherwood-7
Montgomery Blair-6

they don't have a list so you have to search for each school manually. feel free to add onto it!
where are the rest of the schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Great schools rankings are as follows

Churchill-10
BCC-9
Poolesville-9
WJ-9
Wootton-9
Damascus-8
Whitman-8
Northwest-7
Quince Orchard-8
Sherwood-7
Montgomery Blair-6

where are the rest of the schools?

you have to search for each school manually. feel free to search school x great schools and add on.