Congrats to Walt Whitman HS!

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tutor here. I can improve student scores by 300 points if you give me $$ and 6-12 weeks.

Guess which school is the wealthiest in MoCo and thus has the greatest number of kids who receive tutoring?

In fact, Whitman has an in school semester long SAT/ACT program. I don't think it's great quality, but something like that is certainly possible to bump most people's scores by 100 points.

Blair has a lot of NMSQT students because they have a lot of students who got into the math/science magnet by testing well, so obviously they test well on other instruments like the SAT. Also the Blair magnet population tends to do a lot of SAT preparation over a number of years.

Good SAT performance has very little to do with what is being taught in school. Particularly in the verbal section but even in the math.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re the whitest schools. What are you congratulating?

Wootton is the wootest.

Walter Johnson is the johnist.

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Anonymous wrote:That's quite good given the brain drain to the magnets. Look at the list of US Presidential Scholarship candidates and NMFs. Heavily concentrated at the magnets.

Only a few students go to magnets.

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The participants from Whitman are significantly less than other schools. More than PHS. But PHS is a much smaller school. Why?

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Yeah but they can’t play hockey…

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kudos to the Whitman Principal, Teachers and Staff for having the highest SAT score average within MCPS! Same goes to Churchill, Poolesville and Wootton who all averaged over 1200! The next highest HS average wasn't even close - 100 points lower on average.

# R M T
1 Walt Whitman HS 344 652 648 1301
2 Winston Churchill HS 426 645 647 1292
3 Poolesville HS 303 649 642 1291
4 Thomas S. Wootton HS 405 637 647 1284

College Readiness Data (ZIP 31KB)
https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/DataDownloads/FileDownload/520

Great job!

I challenge you to match farms rate and test score. In MCPS low farms = high test score in comparison to higher farms schools. I would be much more impressed with a high farms school getting a high test score.

This. How many threads do rich people need to convince themselves they are so superior they deserve all that wealth. Good Lord.

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Anonymous wrote:Kudos to the Whitman Principal, Teachers and Staff for having the highest SAT score average within MCPS! Same goes to Churchill, Poolesville and Wootton who all averaged over 1200! The next highest HS average wasn't even close - 100 points lower on average.

# R M T
1 Walt Whitman HS 344 652 648 1301
2 Winston Churchill HS 426 645 647 1292
3 Poolesville HS 303 649 642 1291
4 Thomas S. Wootton HS 405 637 647 1284

College Readiness Data (ZIP 31KB)
https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/DataDownloads/FileDownload/520

Great job!

Congrats to the homogenous try-hards of the county!!!

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Anonymous wrote:The participants from Whitman are significantly less than other schools. More than PHS. But PHS is a much smaller school. Why?

About 90% PHS took the exam. But Whitman is only 60+%

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Anonymous wrote:tutor here. I can improve student scores by 300 points if you give me $$ and 6-12 weeks.

Guess which school is the wealthiest in MoCo and thus has the greatest number of kids who receive tutoring?

In fact, Whitman has an in school semester long SAT/ACT program. I don't think it's great quality, but something like that is certainly possible to bump most people's scores by 100 points.

Blair has a lot of NMSQT students because they have a lot of students who got into the math/science magnet by testing well, so obviously they test well on other instruments like the SAT. Also the Blair magnet population tends to do a lot of SAT preparation over a number of years.

Good SAT performance has very little to do with what is being taught in school. Particularly in the verbal section but even in the math.

LOL! My Blair magnet DC never prepped, took the SAT cold, once and done, perfect score, NMF

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This post didn't go as well as the OP intended, huh?

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Anonymous wrote:The participants from Whitman are significantly less than other schools. More than PHS. But PHS is a much smaller school. Why?

PHS is almost entirely a magnet school.

Whitman parents are savvy enough to pretest their kids and skip the SAT if it's not going to be high.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, Centennial and River Hill in Howard are both higher than Walt Whitman.

Guess money doesn't guarantee everything.

Kids that go to Centennial or River Hill aren’t poor. They’re definitely middle to upper middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post didn't go as well as the OP intended, huh?

OP knew what he was doing. He was just trolling all the insane Blair parents.

Blair parents are tired of idiots who don’t know what a magnet school is.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, Centennial and River Hill in Howard are both higher than Walt Whitman.

Guess money doesn't guarantee everything.

How many Asian-American students in these two schools?

Stupid to credit the school when its the Asian Americans mainly who are shining everywhere by their own brilliance and hard work.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Picking up on another thread, how many of those kids received extra time on the tests?

Are you wondering because you want to give extra applause to kids that still score high despite having to overcome learning or other disabilities?

So well said. More of you please.
Any one who believes parents are manipulating the system are criminally stupid.
The last thing a child with normal processing speed is going to do is slog through 50% more test time.
The utter disregard for special needs students in mcps has reached critical levels. Certain schools have principals and counselors who are literal law breakers and very proud of it. Somethings going to give very soon.

It happens, if you don't think it does you might want to look a little deeper.