Walter Johnson vs. Sherwood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't care about commute, I'd choose Olney in a heartbeat. Walter Johnson neighborhoods are blah and have no sense of community in my opinion.

However, I'm surprised to see how low Sherwood's SAT scores. They don't even break 1600. What's up with that?

Data source: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/SATBOEMemo10614.pdf

lack of asian kids to drive up the numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't care about commute, I'd choose Olney in a heartbeat. Walter Johnson neighborhoods are blah and have no sense of community in my opinion.

However, I'm surprised to see how low Sherwood's SAT scores. They don't even break 1600. What's up with that?

Data source: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/SATBOEMemo10614.pdf

There was a thread on that.

Why do I have to drive up county for all my kids activities?

Why do I have to drive to bethesda for Kumon?

[Anonymous]

^ I don't get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ I don't get it.

You don't know about Kumon? Test prep?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't care about commute, I'd choose Olney in a heartbeat. Walter Johnson neighborhoods are blah and have no sense of community in my opinion.

However, I'm surprised to see how low Sherwood's SAT scores. They don't even break 1600. What's up with that?

Data source: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/SATBOEMemo10614.pdf

There was a thread on that.

Why do I have to drive up county for all my kids activities?

Why do I have to drive to bethesda for Kumon?

Uh... You don't. No one is making you to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't care about commute, I'd choose Olney in a heartbeat. Walter Johnson neighborhoods are blah and have no sense of community in my opinion.

However, I'm surprised to see how low Sherwood's SAT scores. They don't even break 1600. What's up with that?

Data source: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/SATBOEMemo10614.pdf

There was a thread on that.

Why do I have to drive up county for all my kids activities?

Why do I have to drive to bethesda for Kumon?

Uh... You don't. No one is making you to.

You clearly don't get it.

[Anonymous]

^ Either you speak your mind or go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don't care about commute, I'd choose Olney in a heartbeat. Walter Johnson neighborhoods are blah and have no sense of community in my opinion.

However, I'm surprised to see how low Sherwood's SAT scores. They don't even break 1600. What's up with that?

Data source: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/SATBOEMemo10614.pdf

lack of asian kids to drive up the numbers.

Well, since Asian kids score a whopping 20 points better out of 2400 in MoCo on the SAT I doubt that's the issue. Sherwood is only 54% white, and there are a lot more middle/lower middle class families in the area than in places like Bethesda and Potomac. I'd also guess that the SES of the Black and Hispanic families are on average significantly lower when compared to Bethesda/Potomac as well. SAT scores go up w/ SES so that's probably the largest difference.

IMO, kids from families with similar parental education and income levels will have similar scores at either school. The schools don't make the kids, the kids make the school. I feel like Sherwood is at a good place; it doesn't have a lot of issues associated either with high poverty or affluence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no comparison. Sherwood is the school where people move when they dislike brown skin. It is one step from chewing straw with the mustang on cinder blocks. You would be insane to move away from WJ unless you want a lot of land.

Is it really that "rednecky" out that way? I think of MoCo as a "progressive" county? am I wrong?

[Anonymous]

My child's elementary school on olney is very diverse....

[Anonymous]

Here are the 2014 average SAT scores for Sherwood and other similar scoring schools:

Sherwood 1588
Watkins Mill 1566
Rockville 1569
Quince Orchard 1651
Einstein (DCC) 1544
Blake (NEC) 1555
MaGruder 1598
Northwest 1577

Please note that all schools listed besides Sherwood are often referred to on DCUM as sketchy, problematic, not some place I'd want my kid to go, etc.

Yet no one says anything disparaging about Sherwood other than it's in the sticks or boring.

I wonder why that is?

[Anonymous]

QO is probably the best combo of all . Great spirit, good scores, decent convenience, edge of the country, tight neighborhoods, easy access to DC.

[Anonymous]

QO and Sherwood are my two favorites in the county. I don't care about SAT scores. Your kid will score the same no matter what school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are the 2014 average SAT scores for Sherwood and other similar scoring schools:

Sherwood 1588
Watkins Mill 1566
Rockville 1569
Quince Orchard 1651
Einstein (DCC) 1544
Blake (NEC) 1555
MaGruder 1598
Northwest 1577

Please note that all schools listed besides Sherwood are often referred to on DCUM as sketchy, problematic, not some place I'd want my kid to go, etc.

Yet no one says anything disparaging about Sherwood other than it's in the sticks or boring.

I wonder why that is?

I love being "in the sticks." It beats being around kids showing half their ass.

On an academic note, parents are part of the problem with regard to SAT scores. If it's not encouraged at home, schools can't force kids to try their best. Furthermore, Sherwood isn't a pressure cooker. The culture is very different from the atmosphere at a W school. So yes, there's quite a bit of money in that area, but the parents aren't necessarily pushing their kids to compete against one another.

I see nothing wrong with that. I'd rather have a strong community with parental support that encourages kids to be well rounded. Of course there are kids who shine. But they're not stabbing each other in the back to earn a spot.

This cluster is - IMO - one of the last feeder patterns that serves kids who fall w/in the middle to upper class range. Remember that it's the middle class who keeps the rest afloat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child's elementary school on olney is very diverse....

Ours isn't, but I can't say I care. My child does have a diverse group of friends, however, but they aren't necessarily representative of the school's population.