Compare Northwest HS and Quince Orchard HS and Clarksburg HS

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Anonymous wrote:Out of those three, QO is the best. Clarksburg and NW have had a lot of issues with fights breaking out. QO focuses a bit too much on sports but at least it has some strong clusters with involved parents including Rachel Carson/Jones Lane etc.

Other posters are right though, with Crown HS being built everything will be rezoned. So it may be best to just buy in a neighborhood you like and hope for the best. We elected not to buy in the Jones Lane neighborhood for this reason, we did not want to be rezoned to an inferior school while relying on public.

Clarksburg parent. No more issues with fighting than any other school. Choose the neighborhood you want to live in as school boundaries are not guaranteed and will be changing a lot in the next couple years.

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Anonymous wrote:We are thinking about these areas. We like that it is relatively affordable, close to the highway, diverse both racially and economically. The schools are so-so (on great schools and niche).
Obviously not W schools but seems like they have fewer issues than Spring Brook, Kennedy, Einstein. Is one obviously better/worse in terms of admin,programs, teachers, cohort, facilities?

This is all just splitting hairs. Go with whichever community you like better. Your kid will do the same at any of these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What issues and criteria are you most concerned about? If it's security and safety, none of MCPS's high schools are great. They're all struggling.

If it's academic rigor and quality of teaching and admin staff, yes that will vary school by school.

The latter. Quality of education if my kid doesn't get into a magnet. Quality of extracurriculars (is it at a high level, or is it so competitive you can't get in). Course options. Is there a lot of flexibility, etc.?

No Seneca Valley. We know some unhappy parents there. Some are trying to move out.

SV just got a new school so it’s much better.

Seneca has out of control violence.
Nw has had a student murdered by a fellow classmate (s).
Quince orchard is the gentler of the 3.

not necessarily the best academics.

When you look at the scores, Quince Orchard has students from inner Gaithersburg whis folks don't speak English and students who's parents are innovators of biotechnology in the kentlands. So yes, you get more of a mixed bag.

"Inner Gaithersburg"

You do realize that the "innovators of biotechnology" don't just live in the Kentlands, right? I live in Clarksburg with a kid at Seneca Valley and I and a bunch of my neighbors work in biotech in Gaithersburg.

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Anonymous wrote:What issues and criteria are you most concerned about? If it's security and safety, none of MCPS's high schools are great. They're all struggling.

If it's academic rigor and quality of teaching and admin staff, yes that will vary school by school.

The latter. Quality of education if my kid doesn't get into a magnet. Quality of extracurriculars (is it at a high level, or is it so competitive you can't get in). Course options. Is there a lot of flexibility, etc.?

No Seneca Valley. We know some unhappy parents there. Some are trying to move out.

SV just got a new school so it’s much better.

Seneca has out of control violence.
Nw has had a student murdered by a fellow classmate (s).
Quince orchard is the gentler of the 3.

not necessarily the best academics.

When you look at the scores, Quince Orchard has students from inner Gaithersburg whis folks don't speak English and students who's parents are innovators of biotechnology in the kentlands. So yes, you get more of a mixed bag.

"Inner Gaithersburg"

You do realize that the "innovators of biotechnology" don't just live in the Kentlands, right? I live in Clarksburg with a kid at Seneca Valley and I and a bunch of my neighbors work in biotech in Gaithersburg.

DP.. I find some of the Kentland parents annoying.

Someone on this forum basically stated that Kentlands kids rule QO. Very disturbing.

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Anonymous wrote:What issues and criteria are you most concerned about? If it's security and safety, none of MCPS's high schools are great. They're all struggling.

If it's academic rigor and quality of teaching and admin staff, yes that will vary school by school.

The latter. Quality of education if my kid doesn't get into a magnet. Quality of extracurriculars (is it at a high level, or is it so competitive you can't get in). Course options. Is there a lot of flexibility, etc.?

No Seneca Valley. We know some unhappy parents there. Some are trying to move out.

SV just got a new school so it’s much better.

Seneca has out of control violence.
Nw has had a student murdered by a fellow classmate (s).
Quince orchard is the gentler of the 3.

not necessarily the best academics.

When you look at the scores, Quince Orchard has students from inner Gaithersburg whis folks don't speak English and students who's parents are innovators of biotechnology in the kentlands. So yes, you get more of a mixed bag.

"Inner Gaithersburg"

You do realize that the "innovators of biotechnology" don't just live in the Kentlands, right? I live in Clarksburg with a kid at Seneca Valley and I and a bunch of my neighbors work in biotech in Gaithersburg.

Well if you were a bigger brain that's higher up you'd be in Bethesda or the kentlands.

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Anonymous wrote:What issues and criteria are you most concerned about? If it's security and safety, none of MCPS's high schools are great. They're all struggling.

If it's academic rigor and quality of teaching and admin staff, yes that will vary school by school.

The latter. Quality of education if my kid doesn't get into a magnet. Quality of extracurriculars (is it at a high level, or is it so competitive you can't get in). Course options. Is there a lot of flexibility, etc.?

No Seneca Valley. We know some unhappy parents there. Some are trying to move out.

SV just got a new school so it’s much better.

Seneca has out of control violence.
Nw has had a student murdered by a fellow classmate (s).
Quince orchard is the gentler of the 3.

not necessarily the best academics.

When you look at the scores, Quince Orchard has students from inner Gaithersburg whis folks don't speak English and students who's parents are innovators of biotechnology in the kentlands. So yes, you get more of a mixed bag.

"Inner Gaithersburg"

Inner Gaithersburg is the area the shooting(s) took place yesterday. Hope that clears things up.

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Anonymous wrote:We are thinking about these areas. We like that it is relatively affordable, close to the highway, diverse both racially and economically. The schools are so-so (on great schools and niche).
Obviously not W schools but seems like they have fewer issues than Spring Brook, Kennedy, Einstein. Is one obviously better/worse in terms of admin,programs, teachers, cohort, facilities?

This is all just splitting hairs. Go with whichever community you like better. Your kid will do the same at any of these schools.

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