"10" elementary school --> 6 MS --> 6 MS
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Anonymous
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Our ES has a 10 rating on great schools, but the middle and high school that it feeds into are 6s. I"m surprised/disappointed by this - I had (an apparently misguided) idea that there were 'good' tracks of schools, and once we were in that we were set through the end.
Not sure what I'm looking for here - well, ok, i'm hoping that someone will tell me that if the ES is a 10, to disregard the other ratings and be confident that the MS and HSs are also excellent despite the ratings, but I don't expect that -- maybe some feedabck on how/why this happens? Suggestions to handle it? ~ Northern MoCo parent of a 1st grader |
Anonymous
| who cares about some random website. It's like getting wound up about your zillow appraisal. |
Anonymous
That website is supported by real estate interests who manipulate the scores to attract certain demographics into a house that they are selling. Completely disregard any website that makes you think that they can rate a school. |
Anonymous
| Kinsview/Northwest? |
Anonymous
Really? I thought those sites had some usefulness - based on test scores and such? Nope, not Kinsview. Schools in Rockville |
Anonymous
| Rockville is Northern MC? |
Anonymous
| Because the kids in high school today were kindergarteners back when those elementary schools were not as good. As property values shot up 8 years ago or so, neighborhoods started filling up with higher income professionals, whose kids are just now in elementary. Middle and high school quality will improve as that cohort moves through. |
Anonymous
| The other thing is - several elem schools end up at the same MS and HS. Some of the elem schools are better than others. Take Northwest for example - there are several decent elem schools that feed into it and several not so great. Therefore the HS is only so so. |
Anonymous
| So what do parents from the "10" ES schools do? Send their kids to private for MS and HS? |
Anonymous
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No. Those kids grow up and then the "scores" catch up so the MS and HS scoring will go up as today's kids move along. Perhaps not a 10 depending on other feeders ES, but check those ES current scores to see what you can look forward to.
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Anonymous
| Exactly. The county is a very different place than it was even 10 years ago, and what you see at the high school level is a snapshot of the population that started school 10 years ago. The elementary schools represent the population of today. |
Anonymous
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FWIW, I was talking to my uncle this past weekend who works in the public relations/information office of the public school system of one of the more highly-regarded counties in the state. He said that they refuse to give any information to great schools and has no idea where they get the info on their schools as it doesn't come from them. He said it is all about parents and their opinions. I'm not suggesting that parental involvement is not important as it certainly is and says something about the schools but I wouldn't take that website's ratings very seriously if I were you.
That was his input anyway. |
Anonymous
| They get their numbers from the Maryland state website which are based off of msa numbers. |