Does data exist on SAT scores, and AP achievements for Jackson Reed (Wilson) or any DCPS high school

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever, 40% AP Scholar is just OK.

+100. This. No dog in this fight, hardly an obsessive "hater." This result cuts BASIS down to size for me.

Ouch. BASIS parents will probably lose sleep with that number having "cut BASIS down to size". 40% for an open enrollment school seems pretty impressive to me. What % would impress you?

At least two-thirds.

Lol. What school do your kids attend?

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My kids attend a high school magnet in MoCo, where my ex resides. They were in DCPS through 6th grade. It's common for students at their magnets to take 7, 8 even 9 AP exams, scoring 4s and 5s. It's normal for MoCo students to start taking APs in 9th grade. Some kids even taken an AP in 8th grade, usually for a language, Geography or World History.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids attend a high school magnet in MoCo, where my ex resides. They were in DCPS through 6th grade. It's common for students at their magnets to take 7, 8 even 9 AP exams, scoring 4s and 5s. It's normal for MoCo students to start taking APs in 9th grade. Some kids even taken an AP in 8th grade, usually for a language, Geography or World History.

NP and I don’t think it’s ‘normal’ for Moco students to take APs in 9th grade. Maybe at your selective magnet, but your school gets to select its students. Making it fundamentally different from JR and Basis. Plus you live in Moco- why do you care about this thread?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids attend a high school magnet in MoCo, where my ex resides. They were in DCPS through 6th grade. It's common for students at their magnets to take 7, 8 even 9 AP exams, scoring 4s and 5s. It's normal for MoCo students to start taking APs in 9th grade. Some kids even taken an AP in 8th grade, usually for a language, Geography or World History.

Any magnet/selective school that can't beat #s from an open enrollment school would be a problem. Maybe you jus don't understand what "magnet" means?

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Anonymous wrote:My kids attend a high school magnet in MoCo, where my ex resides. They were in DCPS through 6th grade. It's common for students at their magnets to take 7, 8 even 9 AP exams, scoring 4s and 5s. It's normal for MoCo students to start taking APs in 9th grade. Some kids even taken an AP in 8th grade, usually for a language, Geography or World History.

NP and I don’t think it’s ‘normal’ for Moco students to take APs in 9th grade. Maybe at your selective magnet, but your school gets to select its students. Making it fundamentally different from JR and Basis. Plus you live in Moco- why do you care about this thread?

DP. MoCo has a totally different attitude towards acceleration than DCPS. In DCPS acceleration is basically a dirty word. They still offer APs but will never, ever ever make any indication that advanced students have a claim
on an appropriate curriculum or that producing top students is a DCPS goal. MoCo is not perfect, but administrators have no problem publicly embracing the goal of academic achievement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids attend a high school magnet in MoCo, where my ex resides. They were in DCPS through 6th grade. It's common for students at their magnets to take 7, 8 even 9 AP exams, scoring 4s and 5s. It's normal for MoCo students to start taking APs in 9th grade. Some kids even taken an AP in 8th grade, usually for a language, Geography or World History.

NP and I don’t think it’s ‘normal’ for Moco students to take APs in 9th grade. Maybe at your selective magnet, but your school gets to select its students. Making it fundamentally different from JR and Basis. Plus you live in Moco- why do you care about this thread?

What's fundamentally different about JR and BASIS is that the best students aren't taught as well as in MoCo, or encouraged to aim as high. There are non-magnet kids in MoCo who take APs in 9th grade. Nobody stands in their way. I still have a kid at Deal who would rather stay in DCPS than join his older siblings in MoCo. I keep hoping that things will get better at JR, but that doesn't seem to be the case. You care about the threads you want and let others do the same.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids attend a high school magnet in MoCo, where my ex resides. They were in DCPS through 6th grade. It's common for students at their magnets to take 7, 8 even 9 AP exams, scoring 4s and 5s. It's normal for MoCo students to start taking APs in 9th grade. Some kids even taken an AP in 8th grade, usually for a language, Geography or World History.

NP and I don’t think it’s ‘normal’ for Moco students to take APs in 9th grade. Maybe at your selective magnet, but your school gets to select its students. Making it fundamentally different from JR and Basis. Plus you live in Moco- why do you care about this thread?

DP. MoCo has a totally different attitude towards acceleration than DCPS. In DCPS acceleration is basically a dirty word. They still offer APs but will never, ever ever make any indication that advanced students have a claim
on an appropriate curriculum or that producing top students is a DCPS goal. MoCo is not perfect, but administrators have no problem publicly embracing the goal of academic achievement.

+1. Magnets and otherwise, advanced students are much better supported in MoCo across the board.

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I don't need data to tell me that go-getter high-achieving UMC kids at JR can keep up with the cream of the MoCo crop if they can draw on substantial family support/resources and get help from adults in the know on planning. You simply have to pay for outside prep, every year of HS. You need to be resourceful about seeking out challenge, starting in MS. When JR counselors tell you that your kid can't get into X AP class (common refrain), you don't take no for an answer. You find the prep/content as a family.

Relying on JR or any other DCPS HS for most inputs won't work at highly competitive colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids attend a high school magnet in MoCo, where my ex resides. They were in DCPS through 6th grade. It's common for students at their magnets to take 7, 8 even 9 AP exams, scoring 4s and 5s. It's normal for MoCo students to start taking APs in 9th grade. Some kids even taken an AP in 8th grade, usually for a language, Geography or World History.

NP and I don’t think it’s ‘normal’ for Moco students to take APs in 9th grade. Maybe at your selective magnet, but your school gets to select its students. Making it fundamentally different from JR and Basis. Plus you live in Moco- why do you care about this thread?

DP. MoCo has a totally different attitude towards acceleration than DCPS. In DCPS acceleration is basically a dirty word. They still offer APs but will never, ever ever make any indication that advanced students have a claim
on an appropriate curriculum or that producing top students is a DCPS goal. MoCo is not perfect, but administrators have no problem publicly embracing the goal of academic achievement.

+1. Magnets and otherwise, advanced students are much better supported in MoCo across the board.

Not really.

Blair STEM magnet is super exclusive. They cherry pick the top 100 of ~750 applicants across the county. Sure, they have great AP results (even though the program doesn't even stress AP). However, if you look at the top 5-10% of JR, they have similar results.

If you compare MoCo generally to JR, the percentage of AP Scholars is about the same. Again, BASIS DC--a 100% lottery school unlike MoCo magnets--has a much, much higher rate of AP Scholars than JR or MoCo generally.

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In MoCo, you don’t need to scheme, push, pay and hassle for AP challenge like you do in DCPS, even if your kid doesn’t crack one of the two Blair magnets or Richard Montgomery IB Diploma. You just don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't need data to tell me that go-getter high-achieving UMC kids at JR can keep up with the cream of the MoCo crop if they can draw on substantial family support/resources and get help from adults in the know on planning. You simply have to pay for outside prep, every year of HS. You need to be resourceful about seeking out challenge, starting in MS. When JR counselors tell you that your kid can't get into X AP class (common refrain), you don't take no for an answer. You find the prep/content as a family.

Relying on JR or any other DCPS HS for most inputs won't work at highly competitive colleges.

How do you prep a high school kid on Spanish, advanced English, Math ... at a certain point, there's no "supplementing" that can feasibly take the place of an actually solid school. Someone that deadset on highly competitive college should move if at all possible.

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Anonymous wrote:In MoCo, you don’t need to scheme, push, pay and hassle for AP challenge like you do in DCPS, even if your kid doesn’t crack one of the two Blair magnets or Richard Montgomery IB Diploma. You just don’t.

^^exactly.

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I htoght Eastern was touting their more agressive academics, their AP scores are absurd. And Bannekars are nothing to brag about either.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't need data to tell me that go-getter high-achieving UMC kids at JR can keep up with the cream of the MoCo crop if they can draw on substantial family support/resources and get help from adults in the know on planning. You simply have to pay for outside prep, every year of HS. You need to be resourceful about seeking out challenge, starting in MS. When JR counselors tell you that your kid can't get into X AP class (common refrain), you don't take no for an answer. You find the prep/content as a family.

Relying on JR or any other DCPS HS for most inputs won't work at highly competitive colleges.

How do you prep a high school kid on Spanish, advanced English, Math ... at a certain point, there's no "supplementing" that can feasibly take the place of an actually solid school. Someone that deadset on highly competitive college should move if at all possible.

Yet, there are JR kids who get into Ivies every year. Same with Walls, BASIS and Latin. JR has some great teachers. If your kid is bright and motivated enough and you can pay for tutors and enrichment camps, you can swing it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids attend a high school magnet in MoCo, where my ex resides. They were in DCPS through 6th grade. It's common for students at their magnets to take 7, 8 even 9 AP exams, scoring 4s and 5s. It's normal for MoCo students to start taking APs in 9th grade. Some kids even taken an AP in 8th grade, usually for a language, Geography or World History.

NP and I don’t think it’s ‘normal’ for Moco students to take APs in 9th grade. Maybe at your selective magnet, but your school gets to select its students. Making it fundamentally different from JR and Basis. Plus you live in Moco- why do you care about this thread?

What's fundamentally different about JR and BASIS is that the best students aren't taught as well as in MoCo, or encouraged to aim as high. There are non-magnet kids in MoCo who take APs in 9th grade. Nobody stands in their way. I still have a kid at Deal who would rather stay in DCPS than join his older siblings in MoCo. I keep hoping that things will get better at JR, but that doesn't seem to be the case. You care about the threads you want and let others do the same.

Taking an AP class in 9th grade/or not is not going to make or break any student. It really is not that big of a deal.