Rockville HS vs. Richard Montgomery HS

[Anonymous]

RM is overcrowded. They are masked by the IB program.

I would pick Rockville.

[Anonymous]

I think you get more house for your money in the Rockville cluster, and the differences between schools are negligible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RM is overcrowded. They are masked by the IB program.

I would pick Rockville.

Yea because all those kids from JW are terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both are good schools. RM is a bit better. Anecdotally, I grew up in the area and went to RM. Pretty much everyone who graduated with me is doing great career wise. The IB kids in particular (I was not one) - many went to Ivy League schools and are now doctors, attorneys, scientists etc.

I live in the RM district. I wouldn’t say that RM is better than Rockville. It’s certainly better for me and my family—we have experiencewith both schools. Rockville is much smaller and gives a different feel because of that. Both are very middle class—averaging demographics very close to the averages of MoCo, but RM has more wealthier households and more poorer ones. I think Rockville has more potential for downstairs slip because of the areas it pulls from. Rockville districts are further from jobs.

Huh???

It's pretty simple. RM district has more areas with much better access to 270, 495, Metro, NoVa, and DC.

[Anonymous]

OP here.

My original concern still applies...why does Rockville only have 36% of kids that meet Univ. of Maryland entry requirements and RM have 64%? Looking into all the Rockville elementary feeder schools it appears that only one of them (Barnesley) offers compacted 4/5 and compacted 5/6 math. It seems like all the feeder elementary schools at RM do offer those. Is that a big factor? Again, my kids are still in lower elementary but are doing quite well in math and I expect at least 1 of them to need access to the higher levels of math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

My original concern still applies...why does Rockville only have 36% of kids that meet Univ. of Maryland entry requirements and RM have 64%? Looking into all the Rockville elementary feeder schools it appears that only one of them (Barnesley) offers compacted 4/5 and compacted 5/6 math. It seems like all the feeder elementary schools at RM do offer those. Is that a big factor? Again, my kids are still in lower elementary but are doing quite well in math and I expect at least 1 of them to need access to the higher levels of math.

where are you getting this from? keep in mind RM's number is probably misleading because it includes 100-120 IB kids. The % will be much lower if you take out IB kids and make it more apples-to-apples comparison with Rockville High.

[Anonymous]

OP, don't listen to the tools chiming in who have no idea what they are talking about. RM is one of the best schools in the county by any measure. Rockville is fine, but RM is a leading school around here. If it were 90% white/asian like Churchill and Wootton, it would have a different reputation on this board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, don't listen to the tools chiming in who have no idea what they are talking about. RM is one of the best schools in the county by any measure. Rockville is fine, but RM is a leading school around here. If it were 90% white/asian like Churchill and Wootton, it would have a different reputation on this board.

No different than GHS without IB program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RM is overcrowded. They are masked by the IB program.

I would pick Rockville.

Yea because all those kids from JW are terrible.

Twinbrook is the pits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

My original concern still applies...why does Rockville only have 36% of kids that meet Univ. of Maryland entry requirements and RM have 64%? Looking into all the Rockville elementary feeder schools it appears that only one of them (Barnesley) offers compacted 4/5 and compacted 5/6 math. It seems like all the feeder elementary schools at RM do offer those. Is that a big factor? Again, my kids are still in lower elementary but are doing quite well in math and I expect at least 1 of them to need access to the higher levels of math.

where are you getting this from? keep in mind RM's number is probably misleading because it includes 100-120 IB kids. The % will be much lower if you take out IB kids and make it more apples-to-apples comparison with Rockville High.

The 400 IB kids who are not already in bounds of RM make up only 1/6 of the population, which still gives the school better numbers when removed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

My original concern still applies...why does Rockville only have 36% of kids that meet Univ. of Maryland entry requirements and RM have 64%? Looking into all the Rockville elementary feeder schools it appears that only one of them (Barnesley) offers compacted 4/5 and compacted 5/6 math. It seems like all the feeder elementary schools at RM do offer those. Is that a big factor? Again, my kids are still in lower elementary but are doing quite well in math and I expect at least 1 of them to need access to the higher levels of math.

Wow, I thought every ES in MoCo offers compacted math these days! Don't they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

My original concern still applies...why does Rockville only have 36% of kids that meet Univ. of Maryland entry requirements and RM have 64%? Looking into all the Rockville elementary feeder schools it appears that only one of them (Barnesley) offers compacted 4/5 and compacted 5/6 math. [b]It seems like all the feeder elementary schools at RM do offer those. Is that a big factor? Again, my kids are still in lower elementary but are doing quite well in math and I expect at least 1 of them to need access to the higher levels of math.

The above bolded is not true. Flower Valley has compacted math as well. I know this because my daughter was offered a spot for 4th grade last year. No idea where you got the information that there is no compacted math except for Barnsley. Barnsley does have a highly gifted center program, or whatever they’re calling it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

My original concern still applies...why does Rockville only have 36% of kids that meet Univ. of Maryland entry requirements and RM have 64%? Looking into all the Rockville elementary feeder schools it appears that only one of them (Barnesley) offers compacted 4/5 and compacted 5/6 math. [b]It seems like all the feeder elementary schools at RM do offer those. Is that a big factor? Again, my kids are still in lower elementary but are doing quite well in math and I expect at least 1 of them to need access to the higher levels of math.

The above bolded is not true. Flower Valley has compacted math as well. I know this because my daughter was offered a spot for 4th grade last year. No idea where you got the information that there is no compacted math except for Barnsley. Barnsley does have a highly gifted center program, or whatever they’re calling it now.

PP here. Boulder the wrong section. Sorry. Meant to build a sentence about Barnsley being the only school offering compacted math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

My original concern still applies...why does Rockville only have 36% of kids that meet Univ. of Maryland entry requirements and RM have 64%? Looking into all the Rockville elementary feeder schools it appears that only one of them (Barnesley) offers compacted 4/5 and compacted 5/6 math. [b]It seems like all the feeder elementary schools at RM do offer those. Is that a big factor? Again, my kids are still in lower elementary but are doing quite well in math and I expect at least 1 of them to need access to the higher levels of math.

The above bolded is not true. Flower Valley has compacted math as well. I know this because my daughter was offered a spot for 4th grade last year. No idea where you got the information that there is no compacted math except for Barnsley. Barnsley does have a highly gifted center program, or whatever they’re calling it now.

Not true for Rock Creek Valley. My daughter was in Compacted 4/5 last year and now is in Compacted 5/6. Funny how people make claims without any facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

My original concern still applies...why does Rockville only have 36% of kids that meet Univ. of Maryland entry requirements and RM have 64%? Looking into all the Rockville elementary feeder schools it appears that only one of them (Barnesley) offers compacted 4/5 and compacted 5/6 math. It seems like all the feeder elementary schools at RM do offer those. Is that a big factor? Again, my kids are still in lower elementary but are doing quite well in math and I expect at least 1 of them to need access to the higher levels of math.

Your original concern is based on wrong data. There is no measure that measures readiness to a specific college.