Poolesville High School tops the 2023 list of best MCPS High Schools in U.S. New and World Report rankings

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Anonymous wrote:is Poolesville like maryland's ashburn?

No, they have a magnet program but their regular folk aren't as bad as RM and Blair.

Poolesville is in the sticks, and it has 36% Asian American students. That's why their scores are high.

Any wealthy school or school with a high % of Asian American population will have high test scores. I know people don't like to hear that, but it's true.

Same thing plays out in CA where I'm originally from. There are HS that have a 40% FARMs rate, but high Asian American population, and their scores are very high.

What percent of the students at Poolesville are magnet students? What percent of the students at Blair & RM are in the magnet. Let’s look at socio economic and racial data of each of those three schools.

I don't know about Poolesville, but RMIB is about 125 per grade, and about 25 from inbound RM cluster. Blair is about 100.

You can look up "at a glance" for those schools, as well as the feeder MS to get a sense of the demographics of the HS based on the MS.

My assumption is a greater percentage of Poolesville students are in a magnet program vs the other two schools, hence the higher performance and rating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’re districted to QOHS. 2,333 in national rankings? Eek. No way.

QO below NWHS

In MD:

NWHS #18
QO #45 - below Springbrook, Blake, Damascus, Clarksburg.

What happened to QO? They used to be on par with NWHS.

Too much football

The problem with qohs is that the school really emphasizes sports to such a degree that academics is pushed aside. All they talk about 24/7 at the school,is sports especially football. But when you look at the number of college sports scholarships received by students at the end of the school year, the numbers are similar to poolesville high school.

Also, we live closer to,the school and any and every time I drive by, I see whole groups of kids walking outside either going to McDonald’s or Dunkin’ or skipping school and heading to the surrounding neighborhood. It’s pretty abysmal!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:is Poolesville like maryland's ashburn?

No, they have a magnet program but their regular folk aren't as bad as RM and Blair.

"as bad"? LOL

I can tell you don't have kids at RM.

Or at Blair. It’s a great school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:is Poolesville like maryland's ashburn?

No, they have a magnet program but their regular folk aren't as bad as RM and Blair.

Poolesville is in the sticks, and it has 36% Asian American students. That's why their scores are high.

Any wealthy school or school with a high % of Asian American population will have high test scores. I know people don't like to hear that, but it's true.

Same thing plays out in CA where I'm originally from. There are HS that have a 40% FARMs rate, but high Asian American population, and their scores are very high.

What percent of the students at Poolesville are magnet students? What percent of the students at Blair & RM are in the magnet. Let’s look at socio economic and racial data of each of those three schools.

I don't know about Poolesville, but RMIB is about 125 per grade, and about 25 from inbound RM cluster. Blair is about 100.

You can look up "at a glance" for those schools, as well as the feeder MS to get a sense of the demographics of the HS based on the MS.

My assumption is a greater percentage of Poolesville students are in a magnet program vs the other two schools, hence the higher performance and rating.

They call it a whole school magnet but I think about 3/4 of the school may be test-in magnet students and the quarter are local students who part of a program that provides the opportunity to do a cool independent research project. I could be wrong on the numbers but the PP is correct that a much greater percentage of the school is in a magnet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:is Poolesville like maryland's ashburn?

No, they have a magnet program but their regular folk aren't as bad as RM and Blair.

Poolesville is in the sticks, and it has 36% Asian American students. That's why their scores are high.

Any wealthy school or school with a high % of Asian American population will have high test scores. I know people don't like to hear that, but it's true.

Same thing plays out in CA where I'm originally from. There are HS that have a 40% FARMs rate, but high Asian American population, and their scores are very high.

What percent of the students at Poolesville are magnet students? What percent of the students at Blair & RM are in the magnet. Let’s look at socio economic and racial data of each of those three schools.

I don't know about Poolesville, but RMIB is about 125 per grade, and about 25 from inbound RM cluster. Blair is about 100.

You can look up "at a glance" for those schools, as well as the feeder MS to get a sense of the demographics of the HS based on the MS.

My assumption is a greater percentage of Poolesville students are in a magnet program vs the other two schools, hence the higher performance and rating.

They call it a whole school magnet but I think about 3/4 of the school may be test-in magnet students and the quarter are local students who part of a program that provides the opportunity to do a cool independent research project. I could be wrong on the numbers but the PP is correct that a much greater percentage of the school is in a magnet.

According to the Metis report, Poolesville has the following numbers of magnet seats:

Math, Science, Computer Science (magnet) 50 /grade
Humanities (magnet) 50 /grade
Global Ecology (magnet) 50 /grade

So that would come to 600 magnet students across all four grades. The school has 1300 students altogether.

[Anonymous]

Not surprising to see Poolesville up there along with the W's!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:is Poolesville like maryland's ashburn?

No, they have a magnet program but their regular folk aren't as bad as RM and Blair.

Poolesville is in the sticks, and it has 36% Asian American students. That's why their scores are high.

Any wealthy school or school with a high % of Asian American population will have high test scores. I know people don't like to hear that, but it's true.

Same thing plays out in CA where I'm originally from. There are HS that have a 40% FARMs rate, but high Asian American population, and their scores are very high.

What percent of the students at Poolesville are magnet students? What percent of the students at Blair & RM are in the magnet. Let’s look at socio economic and racial data of each of those three schools.

I don't know about Poolesville, but RMIB is about 125 per grade, and about 25 from inbound RM cluster. Blair is about 100.

You can look up "at a glance" for those schools, as well as the feeder MS to get a sense of the demographics of the HS based on the MS.

My assumption is a greater percentage of Poolesville students are in a magnet program vs the other two schools, hence the higher performance and rating.

They call it a whole school magnet but I think about 3/4 of the school may be test-in magnet students and the quarter are local students who part of a program that provides the opportunity to do a cool independent research project. I could be wrong on the numbers but the PP is correct that a much greater percentage of the school is in a magnet.

According to the Metis report, Poolesville has the following numbers of magnet seats:

Math, Science, Computer Science (magnet) 50 /grade
Humanities (magnet) 50 /grade
Global Ecology (magnet) 50 /grade

So that would come to 600 magnet students across all four grades. The school has 1300 students altogether.

that would be 150 students per grade in a magnet, so half the grade is in a magnet program. Are all the programs ^ test in or are some more like lottery?

[Anonymous]

The data they're using is old and isn't even accurate. I can't comment on the MoCo schools, but I looked at the AACPS schools (I used to do AP data for the school system), and the AP numbers are blatantly wrong for some of the AA County schools. Over 60% of the seniors at Arundel HS passed their AP exams any year between 2019 and 2021, but US News is claiming that only 38% did. They underreported the number of seniors at southern high who passed as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re districted to QOHS. 2,333 in national rankings? Eek. No way.

QO below NWHS

In MD:

NWHS #18
QO #45 - below Springbrook, Blake, Damascus, Clarksburg.

What happened to QO? They used to be on par with NWHS.

Too much football

The problem with qohs is that the school really emphasizes sports to such a degree that academics is pushed aside. All they talk about 24/7 at the school,is sports especially football. But when you look at the number of college sports scholarships received by students at the end of the school year, the numbers are similar to poolesville high school.

Also, we live closer to,the school and any and every time I drive by, I see whole groups of kids walking outside either going to McDonald’s or Dunkin’ or skipping school and heading to the surrounding neighborhood. It’s pretty abysmal!

I had the exact same observation. That said, I do think it's possible to get a decent education at QO. Poolesville is a special place though, I am not surprised that it is so high in the rankings.