Best high schools for African American students?
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Anonymous
| Blair cluster |
Anonymous
In the staff survey, 38.7 percent gave MCPS a C and 32.1 percent gave MCPS a D and 17.9 percent gave MCPS an F. That means 88.7% of staff at PBHS gave MCPS an C or less. For the school specifically, 75% of staff gave PBHS specifically a C or less. On the student side, 58% gave MCPS a C or less. And 70.8% gave PBHS a C or less. Those grades from staff and students don't indicate that the school or the system are doing very well. |
Anonymous
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60% of black students at Wheaton HS give the school an A or B. 27.9 percent of black students at Paint Branch HS give the school an A or B.
But yes, there are no problems at Paint Branch High School and anyone who says as much is racist. 
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Anonymous
Just to be clear, the PP said that all Silver Spring schools have bad "cultures" but the numbers for Blair and Einstein along that exact same metric are pretty good 84 percent for Blair and 83 percent for Einstein. For the question "At my school, students treat people from different races, ethnicities, or cultures fairly" you have 89 percent for Blair and 88 percent for Einstein. This actually sounds like a pretty good "culture" to me. |
Anonymous
I ranked Blair and Einstein as being among the best options in Silver Spring. When you factor in ALL of the schools in Silver Spring, which include those in the DCC and NEC, pretty much only Blair, Einstein and Wheaton have acceptable climate and culture measures from staff and student. |
Anonymous
While that is true, I want to move to cluster that she can go to from K-12. I want this to be a one time move. |
Anonymous
I meant to put high school cluster. That’s what I get for multitasking. |
Anonymous
You mean all the high schools? There are lots of elementary schools with positive ratings from staff and students. At the middle school level most have appallingly bad survey scores, Argyle and Sligo are average, Parkland is a bit better than average, Takoma Park is very good. OP, you can find MCPS survey results here: https://sharedaccountability.mcpsmd.org/SurveyResults/content.php?sch=798 The MD school report cards also include survey scores from staff and students: https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/ |
Anonymous
I understand. If you're considering any of the Downcounty Consortium (DCC) schools, be advised that there will be a boundary study soon, which may redraw the middle and high school boundaries. Elementary boundaries are not included. The NEC does not have any imminent boundary studies. |
Anonymous
Thank you, that’s very helpful! |
Anonymous
| Avoid Wootton. AA with buyers remorse here. My kid is the only Black one in the class. 😩 |
Anonymous
Unfortunately MCPS does not do a great job of making sure any students that do extremely well are well supported. They spend a huge amount of resources towards kids who are underperforming and expect the high performers to just sort of keep it moving. I think you’d do well in the BCC cluster where there are definitely UMC high achieving AA students/peers and there’s a critical mass of high performing students that courses like compacted math, etc. are absolutely offered vs. clusters where those enriched courses are cut because 95 percent of the class needs remediation and they need to allocate the teachers to do so. |
Anonymous
Yes, I'd be especially aware of property close to Woodward or any of the adjacent schools like Wheaton, WJ, Einstein and BCC. |
Anonymous
How’s Woodward? This is the first time I heard this name. |
Anonymous
Woodward's building will be open next year, but it will be a holding school for Northwood for the first three years. After Northwood leaves three years from now, it will be its own school. So you haven't heard of it because it didn't exist. |