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I remember reading the post a while back that showed Blair's SAT average was 50 points higher for the largest common cohort to it and any W in order to isolate for demographic differences and gauge the school's actual value. Some people argued but the magnet responsible which was ridiculous because it's a small program in a large school that's also mostly Asian. These silly posts that are based on outdated notions from 30 years ago are mostly laughable.
I believe these were the SAT scores for the largest cohort common to each of these high-schools
Blair 1326
Walter Johnson 1275
Wootton 1262
Churchill 1257
The data was published by the county here.
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf
This makes a lot more sense than just dumping raw data.
The smartest white kids means it’s the best school? I cannot imagine anything more racist and classist than that, considering 90% of Blair kids are from rich liberal families in Takoma Park. I know a few of them myself.
Yup.
To me, the best schools are the schools where Black and Hispanic students perform the best. So the top 4 are Poolesville, Whitman, Churchill and BCC. Black and Hispanic students at Blair perform worse than Northwest, Sherwood and Watkins Mill which says a lot about Blair. That’s a lot of inequality in one school and it’s hard to understand how white kids are getting taught so well while Black and Brown kids are not.
Yeah but they have to be a significant number/percentage to mean anything. The percentage of Black and Hispanic students at Whitman and Poolesville is less than 5%. Comparing the scores of 5 ~10 to 200 kids is comparing apples to oranges. That is why the comparison should be with the group that has a significant number/percentage of students on each school.
I mean when you have 5 African diplomatic kids at Whitman, do you think they live in poverty, don't get the support they need?
So please explain the difference between the performance of Black students at BCC vs Blair.
BCC is 15% Black and Blair is 24% Black. Nearly all of the Black students at BCC live in Silver Spring and would be assigned to Blair if they lived literally in the next apartment building over. So why is it that those Black kids at BCC are doing significantly better than kids one block away?
You want to trumpet Blair as a success because the White kids perform better on average than the White kids at Whitman, but why can’t they reach the Black kids? Why does a Black kid who lives across the street and goes to a different school that still has a good number of Black kids from the same neighborhood have substantially better educational outcomes?
I doubt that you can answer that, but the answer is obviously racism and that’s something that these Liberal white Takoma Park folks in their million dollar houses that think they’re so open minded sending their kids to public school need to come to terms with. Their school is privileging their kids and not teaching Black and Brown kids who are unlucky to live in the wrong block. That’s it.
To borrow a phrase, “The greatness of a [school] shall be judged by how it treats its weakest member” and by that metric Blair fails and fails quite horribly.
So let me get this right, according to you, the black kids at BCC are all poor and live in apartment buildings? They aren't the kids of lawyers, business people, and feds - many of the people who are relatively affluent who live in Silver Spring but still go to BCC (that really gets stuck in your craw, doesn't it?). The black kids at BCC - you're trying to tell me - are the same socio-economic background as the black kids who live on Maple Avenue and on the eastern side of University Blvd and in the apartment buildings on Piney Branch and Flower Avenue? Get the hell out with your nonsense racism. News Flash: Black kids can be the kids of the same types of successful professionals who are white and go to Rosemary Hills - BCC.
Imagine that just because the black kids at BCC are black, doesn't mean they are poor. And so, their parents have the time, resources, and perhaps education, to fully support their children's academics.
Not all of the kids at Blair who are black are poor - to the contrary. But the streets I flagged below include some economically disadvantaged neighborhoods where kids may not have the resources to do well academically - or may be working after school to help pay for family expenses. It's not an apple to apple comparison any more than comparing a wealthy white kid from Potomac is to comparing a white child who lives in a poorer neighborhood in the county.
Lastly, why are you so invested in tearing down Blair? It's crazy how many posters resent Blair's success. Get a grip.
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