Best Howard County high schools

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Much like the rest of the Baltimore metro area, Howard County peaked in the 2010s and the buzz of it is long gone.

[Anonymous]

Baltimore peaked a long time ago and has been sliding since. HCPSS has some overcrowding issues but is still one of the best school systems in the state.

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Anonymous wrote:Much like the rest of the Baltimore metro area, Howard County peaked in the 2010s and the buzz of it is long gone.

Not true for the best Hoco schools, River Hill, Marriotts Ridge or Centennial. Still a great education.

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Does HCPS use lotteries and have different programs in their high schools, or do students attend the school they are zoned for and the schools all have pretty much the same classes as each other? I’m over MCPS and all their lotteries and inequalities in programming.

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No- in HoCo- people pay a premium to live on b the best school districts and then get furious when they get redistricted

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Anonymous wrote:Much like the rest of the Baltimore metro area, Howard County peaked in the 2010s and the buzz of it is long gone.

What's peaking now? Carrol County? Anne Arundel?

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Wilde lake

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Anonymous wrote:It's a smaller county than Montgomery MD and Fairfax VA. How many high schools are there? Which one did you like and why, or not like and why not? Post your experiences.

Fairfax lot bigger. And they seem to care about this: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1291558.page

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Anonymous wrote:Riverhill

RiverPILL

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much like the rest of the Baltimore metro area, Howard County peaked in the 2010s and the buzz of it is long gone.

Not true for the best Hoco schools, River Hill, Marriotts Ridge or Centennial. Still a great education.

Centennial is trash and does not belong in the same category as River Hill. River Hill is wealthy, Centennial is just a bunch of hardcore middle-class tiger parents living in $600k ellicott city homes who are too poor to afford River Hill or a $1M house. They are the same income strata as Mt Hebron or Howard HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Much like the rest of the Baltimore metro area, Howard County peaked in the 2010s and the buzz of it is long gone.

What's peaking now? Carrol County? Anne Arundel?

Anne Arundel peaked whenever the show Lizzie McGuire came out.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much like the rest of the Baltimore metro area, Howard County peaked in the 2010s and the buzz of it is long gone.

Not true for the best Hoco schools, River Hill, Marriotts Ridge or Centennial. Still a great education.

Centennial is trash and does not belong in the same category as River Hill. River Hill is wealthy, Centennial is just a bunch of hardcore middle-class tiger parents living in $600k ellicott city homes who are too poor to afford River Hill or a $1M house. They are the same income strata as Mt Hebron or Howard HS.

I saw the recent protesting of Centennial parents against moving kids to Wilde Lake schools and the woman in the news was wearing clothes from Primark. Yuck, so low class and wannabe rich yet so pretentious. Centennial declined in the rankings ever since Marriotts Ridge and River Hill took all of its million dollar home neighborhoods. Now it’s just working-class and middle-class, also yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:Does HCPS use lotteries and have different programs in their high schools, or do students attend the school they are zoned for and the schools all have pretty much the same classes as each other? I’m over MCPS and all their lotteries and inequalities in programming.

HCPSS is not like MCPS with magnet schools dotted all over the place. The curriculum is standardized across the system. GT students have special programs they can attend within their base schools.

The main complaints about HCPSS are overcrowding and constant redistricting.