Maryland's #1 High School ranked Lower than VA's #3
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Anonymous
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I guess the mandatory tax increases and huge budgets didn't really make that much of a difference vs VA's lower taxes and different financial spending and tax philosophy
#1 Winston Churchill High School 11300 GAINSBOROUGH RD POTOMAC, MD 20854 Montgomery County Public Schools #57 Nationally Ranked #3 George C. Marshall High School 7731 LEESBURG PK FALLS CHURCH, VA 22043 Fairfax County Public Schools #55 Nationally Ranked http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/rankings http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/rankings |
Anonymous
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Most of this is due the AP/IB stats and a big difference is that at least FCPS mandates that kids take the AP exams if they are taking the class and pays for it. Neither of those is the case in MD that I am aware of, certainly not in MoCo. I wish it were.
Also MoCo doesn't have any full magnet high schools. The magnets are programs within larger schools. so the magnet results get diluted by the overall population of the schools. As Jay Mathews says, just to be ranked is a good thing. Being in the top 100-200 nationally is a pretty big deal and not sure there is that much of a difference between #57 and #83, or whatever. We are lucky that we have so many schools on both sides of the river where kids can get a great education. |
Anonymous
| This is no surprise to anyone in Virginia. |
Anonymous
| It's been a couple years since I had read this, but in calculating the rankings, I believe there is also a factor relating to the percentage of economically disadvantaged students. |
Anonymous
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Does U.S. News and World Report actually cover news anymore? Or is it just endless meangingless lists?
Signed, Virginia parent. |
Anonymous
I also see test scores affecting the ranking not just AB/IB |
Anonymous
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http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia/rankings
What's scary is that only 2 DC schools are even ranked, the highest is #700 nationally and one of the two has a 2% pass rate on AP exams. So while we MD and VA people argue about the merits of #53 vs #55 take a moment to put that in perspective. |
Anonymous
| I noticed that George Mason and Marshall H.S. are both IB program schools. Are they considered equivalent to AP programs, and accepted by college programs for credits? My understanding was that AP is widely accepted whereas IB programs are still being challenged by some U.S. colleges and might not earn the students the same college credits. |
Anonymous
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The rabid anti- Marylander strikes again!
Who cares? I'm happy here, you're happy there. Give it a rest. |
Anonymous
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#57/#57 Isn't that difference within the margin of error?
Meaningless. |
Anonymous
Alot of DC/MD VA bashers and just hitting them back with points to show how VA's taxes and policies and are better |
Anonymous
Don't go to the OBX thread they threw VA under the bus with the NC in the first page of posts. MD will just sit in the back of the bus with our gay and black friends (oh and our under achieving children - no they are on the short bus - sorry). |
Anonymous
Yup -- that's pretty much all they do these days, but they're making a ton of money off it. Look at how people jumped on this thread as soon as the listings came out. Nobody ever went broke overestimating the anxiety of American parents. |
Anonymous
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Funny WTOP has an article just today on the glorious state of VA
Longer commutes, fewer jobs and expensive housing are combining to have a dramatic impact on Northern Virginia, and many residents are having trouble making ends meet....www.wtop.com to read more |
Anonymous
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This is just nonsense. They count the number of kids taking (or being pushed into) AP classes and then compare it against the student body.
It has nothing to do with test scores, what kids have retained, how prepared they are for college, or whether they even enroll in college. A huge fraud. |