Suburban MD Prestige Rankings

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These lists are missing Roland Park, Severna Park, Annapolis, Gibson Island, Clarksville, and Davidsonville. While they may be more oriented towards Baltimore, they’re still part of the state of Maryland and not super far from DC.

Very few people, if any, are commuting from here to DC. Clearly this thread is about DC suburbs. Besides, Gibson Island is a second home destination with few year-round residents. Roland Park is part of Baltimore and has declined a lot over the past few decades (in terms of both wealth and prestige), and is quite clearly not a DC suburb. Davidsonville is a suburb of Annapolis and is largely trashy exurbs. Clarksville, aside from horse farms, is not even in the discussion, and is not a suburb of DC in any real way. Annapolis is nice but not a DC suburb, and is only prestigious if you are on the deep water or in the historic downtown, and then is not really all that prestigious. Severna Park is the North Bethesda of Annapolis. I mean, the whole discussion is stupid, but this is even stupider.

Saying that North Bethesda is Severna Park is laughable. Severna Park is real prestige and old money. North Bethesda is just Rockville a cluster of chains, townhomes, and cookie cutter NVHomes on a crowded highway while trying to be pretentious. North Bethesda is just a more expensive version of Crofton or Odenton. Severna Park is closer to Chevy Chase if anything.

Severna Park is some rich defense contractor money along the waterfront, CPAs and third-tier lawyers in the "water privileged" communities, and then the rest are just white trash who are one big medical bill away from moving back to St Mary's.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.

And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious

LMFAO, that PP is on some serious drugs. Odenton! Lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.

And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious

LMFAO, that PP is on some serious drugs. Odenton! Lol.

There are plenty of nice communities, but it's basically subdivision Chip and Joanna Gaines land. I don't get the posturing. It's perfectly fine. Dry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.

And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious

LMFAO, that PP is on some serious drugs. Odenton! Lol.

There are plenty of nice communities, but it's basically subdivision Chip and Joanna Gaines land. I don't get the posturing. It's perfectly fine. Dry.

It's not even that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These lists are missing Roland Park, Severna Park, Annapolis, Gibson Island, Clarksville, and Davidsonville. While they may be more oriented towards Baltimore, they’re still part of the state of Maryland and not super far from DC.

Very few people, if any, are commuting from here to DC. Clearly this thread is about DC suburbs. Besides, Gibson Island is a second home destination with few year-round residents. Roland Park is part of Baltimore and has declined a lot over the past few decades (in terms of both wealth and prestige), and is quite clearly not a DC suburb. Davidsonville is a suburb of Annapolis and is largely trashy exurbs. Clarksville, aside from horse farms, is not even in the discussion, and is not a suburb of DC in any real way. Annapolis is nice but not a DC suburb, and is only prestigious if you are on the deep water or in the historic downtown, and then is not really all that prestigious. Severna Park is the North Bethesda of Annapolis. I mean, the whole discussion is stupid, but this is even stupider.

Saying that North Bethesda is Severna Park is laughable. Severna Park is real prestige and old money. North Bethesda is just Rockville a cluster of chains, townhomes, and cookie cutter NVHomes on a crowded highway while trying to be pretentious. North Bethesda is just a more expensive version of Crofton or Odenton. Severna Park is closer to Chevy Chase if anything.

Severna Park is some rich defense contractor money along the waterfront, CPAs and third-tier lawyers in the "water privileged" communities, and then the rest are just white trash who are one big medical bill away from moving back to St Mary's.

Not all the way duean ta St. Mary's, hun. Maybe just ta Sain Lennerd!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These lists are missing Roland Park, Severna Park, Annapolis, Gibson Island, Clarksville, and Davidsonville. While they may be more oriented towards Baltimore, they’re still part of the state of Maryland and not super far from DC.

Very few people, if any, are commuting from here to DC. Clearly this thread is about DC suburbs. Besides, Gibson Island is a second home destination with few year-round residents. Roland Park is part of Baltimore and has declined a lot over the past few decades (in terms of both wealth and prestige), and is quite clearly not a DC suburb. Davidsonville is a suburb of Annapolis and is largely trashy exurbs. Clarksville, aside from horse farms, is not even in the discussion, and is not a suburb of DC in any real way. Annapolis is nice but not a DC suburb, and is only prestigious if you are on the deep water or in the historic downtown, and then is not really all that prestigious. Severna Park is the North Bethesda of Annapolis. I mean, the whole discussion is stupid, but this is even stupider.

Saying that North Bethesda is Severna Park is laughable. Severna Park is real prestige and old money. North Bethesda is just Rockville a cluster of chains, townhomes, and cookie cutter NVHomes on a crowded highway while trying to be pretentious. North Bethesda is just a more expensive version of Crofton or Odenton. Severna Park is closer to Chevy Chase if anything.

Severna Park is some rich defense contractor money along the waterfront, CPAs and third-tier lawyers in the "water privileged" communities, and then the rest are just white trash who are one big medical bill away from moving back to St Mary's.

Lmao. This post hyperbole but there’s actually some truth here when taken loosely.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.

And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious

You all are laughing, meanwhile you're sending your kids to an MCPS school that is equivalent to Glen Burnie High School in AACPS. The schools in Odenton and Gambrills don't need a million magnet programs to bring W cluster school kids into their schools to only achieve average rankings. That's the reality of every school in eastern and upper MoCo. If the schools in eastern MoCo had the rankings of Crofton, Odenton, and Gambrills schools, the price gap between homes in Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac and Takoma Park/Silver Spring/non-BCC/WJ Einstein wouldn't be anywhere near as large as it currently is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These lists are missing Roland Park, Severna Park, Annapolis, Gibson Island, Clarksville, and Davidsonville. While they may be more oriented towards Baltimore, they’re still part of the state of Maryland and not super far from DC.

Very few people, if any, are commuting from here to DC. Clearly this thread is about DC suburbs. Besides, Gibson Island is a second home destination with few year-round residents. Roland Park is part of Baltimore and has declined a lot over the past few decades (in terms of both wealth and prestige), and is quite clearly not a DC suburb. Davidsonville is a suburb of Annapolis and is largely trashy exurbs. Clarksville, aside from horse farms, is not even in the discussion, and is not a suburb of DC in any real way. Annapolis is nice but not a DC suburb, and is only prestigious if you are on the deep water or in the historic downtown, and then is not really all that prestigious. Severna Park is the North Bethesda of Annapolis. I mean, the whole discussion is stupid, but this is even stupider.

Saying that North Bethesda is Severna Park is laughable. Severna Park is real prestige and old money. North Bethesda is just Rockville a cluster of chains, townhomes, and cookie cutter NVHomes on a crowded highway while trying to be pretentious. North Bethesda is just a more expensive version of Crofton or Odenton. Severna Park is closer to Chevy Chase if anything.

Severna Park is some rich defense contractor money along the waterfront, CPAs and third-tier lawyers in the "water privileged" communities, and then the rest are just white trash who are one big medical bill away from moving back to St Mary's.

If the entirety of your wealth comes from people living in ugly tear downs that didn't exist more than 15 years ago, maybe you need to humble yourself and sit down. Severna Park has had wealthy residents and neighborhoods for over 100 years, "North Bethesda" didn't exist 15 years ago and is simply a dumping ground for new money families who cannot afford the better W schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia MD

This!

And
Clarksville (River Hill HS / HoCo Schools)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These lists are missing Roland Park, Severna Park, Annapolis, Gibson Island, Clarksville, and Davidsonville. While they may be more oriented towards Baltimore, they’re still part of the state of Maryland and not super far from DC.

Very few people, if any, are commuting from here to DC. Clearly this thread is about DC suburbs. Besides, Gibson Island is a second home destination with few year-round residents. Roland Park is part of Baltimore and has declined a lot over the past few decades (in terms of both wealth and prestige), and is quite clearly not a DC suburb. Davidsonville is a suburb of Annapolis and is largely trashy exurbs. Clarksville, aside from horse farms, is not even in the discussion, and is not a suburb of DC in any real way. Annapolis is nice but not a DC suburb, and is only prestigious if you are on the deep water or in the historic downtown, and then is not really all that prestigious. Severna Park is the North Bethesda of Annapolis. I mean, the whole discussion is stupid, but this is even stupider.

Saying that North Bethesda is Severna Park is laughable. Severna Park is real prestige and old money. North Bethesda is just Rockville a cluster of chains, townhomes, and cookie cutter NVHomes on a crowded highway while trying to be pretentious. North Bethesda is just a more expensive version of Crofton or Odenton. Severna Park is closer to Chevy Chase if anything.

Severna Park is some rich defense contractor money along the waterfront, CPAs and third-tier lawyers in the "water privileged" communities, and then the rest are just white trash who are one big medical bill away from moving back to St Mary's.

If the entirety of your wealth comes from people living in ugly tear downs that didn't exist more than 15 years ago, maybe you need to humble yourself and sit down. Severna Park has had wealthy residents and neighborhoods for over 100 years, "North Bethesda" didn't exist 15 years ago and is simply a dumping ground for new money families who cannot afford the better W schools.

The US does not have old money. Severn’s park is a dumping ground for (less but still) new money families who cannot afford life in Europe during the inter war period

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These lists are missing Roland Park, Severna Park, Annapolis, Gibson Island, Clarksville, and Davidsonville. While they may be more oriented towards Baltimore, they’re still part of the state of Maryland and not super far from DC.

Very few people, if any, are commuting from here to DC. Clearly this thread is about DC suburbs. Besides, Gibson Island is a second home destination with few year-round residents. Roland Park is part of Baltimore and has declined a lot over the past few decades (in terms of both wealth and prestige), and is quite clearly not a DC suburb. Davidsonville is a suburb of Annapolis and is largely trashy exurbs. Clarksville, aside from horse farms, is not even in the discussion, and is not a suburb of DC in any real way. Annapolis is nice but not a DC suburb, and is only prestigious if you are on the deep water or in the historic downtown, and then is not really all that prestigious. Severna Park is the North Bethesda of Annapolis. I mean, the whole discussion is stupid, but this is even stupider.

Saying that North Bethesda is Severna Park is laughable. Severna Park is real prestige and old money. North Bethesda is just Rockville a cluster of chains, townhomes, and cookie cutter NVHomes on a crowded highway while trying to be pretentious. North Bethesda is just a more expensive version of Crofton or Odenton. Severna Park is closer to Chevy Chase if anything.

Severna Park is some rich defense contractor money along the waterfront, CPAs and third-tier lawyers in the "water privileged" communities, and then the rest are just white trash who are one big medical bill away from moving back to St Mary's.

If the entirety of your wealth comes from people living in ugly tear downs that didn't exist more than 15 years ago, maybe you need to humble yourself and sit down. Severna Park has had wealthy residents and neighborhoods for over 100 years, "North Bethesda" didn't exist 15 years ago and is simply a dumping ground for new money families who cannot afford the better W schools.

Wow, over 100 years! Lol. Severna Park is not a bastion of old money. What a silly thing to say. Literally no one but you believes that.

And I'm not from North Bethesda, and I agree about North Bethesda being full of ugly houses. The comparison was not intended as a compliment to Severna Park. Says a lot about you and your insecurity that you took it that way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.

And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious

You all are laughing, meanwhile you're sending your kids to an MCPS school that is equivalent to Glen Burnie High School in AACPS. The schools in Odenton and Gambrills don't need a million magnet programs to bring W cluster school kids into their schools to only achieve average rankings. That's the reality of every school in eastern and upper MoCo. If the schools in eastern MoCo had the rankings of Crofton, Odenton, and Gambrills schools, the price gap between homes in Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac and Takoma Park/Silver Spring/non-BCC/WJ Einstein wouldn't be anywhere near as large as it currently is.

This thread is, for better or worse, about prestige. If you think that Great Schools rankings of public schools tell you anything about prestige, you are hilariously out of touch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.

And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious

You all are laughing, meanwhile you're sending your kids to an MCPS school that is equivalent to Glen Burnie High School in AACPS. The schools in Odenton and Gambrills don't need a million magnet programs to bring W cluster school kids into their schools to only achieve average rankings. That's the reality of every school in eastern and upper MoCo. If the schools in eastern MoCo had the rankings of Crofton, Odenton, and Gambrills schools, the price gap between homes in Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac and Takoma Park/Silver Spring/non-BCC/WJ Einstein wouldn't be anywhere near as large as it currently is.

This thread is, for better or worse, about prestige. If you think that Great Schools rankings of public schools tell you anything about prestige, you are hilariously out of touch.

So what exactly is so special about Olney, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Gaithersburg, and Fort Washington that Odenton can't be placed in the same tier as them? You literally live in the cheapest, dumpiest parts of Montgomery County bordered by the dumpiest parts of PG County. Nearly everyone in Odenton could afford to live in any of these areas if they wanted to, but they purposely choose to live further out to avoid them. If anything, it does a disservice to Odenton to be lumped in with areas that are one regional program model implementation away from becoming some of the very worst schools in the entire state.

When you rank these towns by percentage of $1M+ homes sold over the last year as a total percentage of all homes, you see Odenton blows the vast majority of these places out of the water too:

Davidsonville: 47% (47 homes)
Kensington: 33.5% (73 homes)
Takoma Park: 24.2% (47 homes)
Severna Park: 20% (70 homes)
North Bethesda: 19.9% (170 homes)
Annapolis: 18.2% (296 homes)
Rockville: 16% (344 homes)
Odenton: 14.3% (91 homes)
Arnold: 12.9% (50 homes)
Gaithersburg: 8% (87 homes)
Olney: 7.16% (19 homes)
Gambrills: 6.9% (12 homes)
Silver Spring: 3.3% (90 homes)
Fort Washington: 0.007% (4 homes)
Crofton: 0.003% (1 home)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.

And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious

You all are laughing, meanwhile you're sending your kids to an MCPS school that is equivalent to Glen Burnie High School in AACPS. The schools in Odenton and Gambrills don't need a million magnet programs to bring W cluster school kids into their schools to only achieve average rankings. That's the reality of every school in eastern and upper MoCo. If the schools in eastern MoCo had the rankings of Crofton, Odenton, and Gambrills schools, the price gap between homes in Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac and Takoma Park/Silver Spring/non-BCC/WJ Einstein wouldn't be anywhere near as large as it currently is.

This thread is, for better or worse, about prestige. If you think that Great Schools rankings of public schools tell you anything about prestige, you are hilariously out of touch.

So what exactly is so special about Olney, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Gaithersburg, and Fort Washington that Odenton can't be placed in the same tier as them? You literally live in the cheapest, dumpiest parts of Montgomery County bordered by the dumpiest parts of PG County. Nearly everyone in Odenton could afford to live in any of these areas if they wanted to, but they purposely choose to live further out to avoid them. If anything, it does a disservice to Odenton to be lumped in with areas that are one regional program model implementation away from becoming some of the very worst schools in the entire state.

When you rank these towns by percentage of $1M+ homes sold over the last year as a total percentage of all homes, you see Odenton blows the vast majority of these places out of the water too:

Davidsonville: 47% (47 homes)
Kensington: 33.5% (73 homes)
Takoma Park: 24.2% (47 homes)
Severna Park: 20% (70 homes)
North Bethesda: 19.9% (170 homes)
Annapolis: 18.2% (296 homes)
Rockville: 16% (344 homes)
Odenton: 14.3% (91 homes)
Arnold: 12.9% (50 homes)
Gaithersburg: 8% (87 homes)
Olney: 7.16% (19 homes)
Gambrills: 6.9% (12 homes)
Silver Spring: 3.3% (90 homes)
Fort Washington: 0.007% (4 homes)
Crofton: 0.003% (1 home)

When did any PP say where they live?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington
Annapolis
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County
Ellicott City
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville
Millersville
Upper Marlboro
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring
Germantown
Poolesville
Frederick
Elkridge
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie
Hyattsville

Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.

And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings).

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious

You all are laughing, meanwhile you're sending your kids to an MCPS school that is equivalent to Glen Burnie High School in AACPS. The schools in Odenton and Gambrills don't need a million magnet programs to bring W cluster school kids into their schools to only achieve average rankings. That's the reality of every school in eastern and upper MoCo. If the schools in eastern MoCo had the rankings of Crofton, Odenton, and Gambrills schools, the price gap between homes in Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac and Takoma Park/Silver Spring/non-BCC/WJ Einstein wouldn't be anywhere near as large as it currently is.

This thread is, for better or worse, about prestige. If you think that Great Schools rankings of public schools tell you anything about prestige, you are hilariously out of touch.

So what exactly is so special about Olney, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Gaithersburg, and Fort Washington that Odenton can't be placed in the same tier as them? You literally live in the cheapest, dumpiest parts of Montgomery County bordered by the dumpiest parts of PG County. Nearly everyone in Odenton could afford to live in any of these areas if they wanted to, but they purposely choose to live further out to avoid them. If anything, it does a disservice to Odenton to be lumped in with areas that are one regional program model implementation away from becoming some of the very worst schools in the entire state.

When you rank these towns by percentage of $1M+ homes sold over the last year as a total percentage of all homes, you see Odenton blows the vast majority of these places out of the water too:

Davidsonville: 47% (47 homes)
Kensington: 33.5% (73 homes)
Takoma Park: 24.2% (47 homes)
Severna Park: 20% (70 homes)
North Bethesda: 19.9% (170 homes)
Annapolis: 18.2% (296 homes)
Rockville: 16% (344 homes)
Odenton: 14.3% (91 homes)
Arnold: 12.9% (50 homes)
Gaithersburg: 8% (87 homes)
Olney: 7.16% (19 homes)
Gambrills: 6.9% (12 homes)
Silver Spring: 3.3% (90 homes)
Fort Washington: 0.007% (4 homes)
Crofton: 0.003% (1 home)

When did any PP say where they live?

The point is, Odenton was placed in the same tier as Fort Washington, Olney, Takoma Park, and Gaithersburg. Nobody ever said it's Bethesda and Potomac, yet people were still like "oDenTon lOl?!" If anything, Odenton belongs in a slightly higher tier than these areas based off home prices, schools, etc