2016 Best DC Metro Area High Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

Is RMIB a high school? I'm not familiar with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this list short changes diverse schools like TC or FCPS schools like Stuart. Their SATs are not going to be as high homogeneous schools The top students at those schools can compete with top students at Sidwell or TJ for that matter. This list sounds like a conspiracy on the part of private schools and the magnets for more applications.

That is similar to the point about % being misleading (which PPs didn't understand).

I think that's because they're attempting to rank the whole school, not just the top students. If they only looked at students from each school that would have been accepted to the top ranked school (TJ) or just students taking honors classes, to eliminate "diversity", the list might have a different order but that wouldn't be a ranking of the schools. I understand your intuition that the comparison is unfair but that's because the list compares local public high schools with magnet schools and competitive entry private schools and their student body is as homogenous or diverse as the admissions office wants it to be.

[Anonymous]

How ridiculous

[Anonymous]

What are the "15 top colleges" referenced on the list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

Is RMIB a high school? I'm not familiar with it.

Richard Montgomery High School (Mont County Public School) which has an Intl Baccalaureate (IB) program within it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

If you do that, at 1500, RMIB will be on the top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

Is RMIB a high school? I'm not familiar with it.

It's a countywide test-in magnet program within MCPS - 100 kids/grade (admit rate of around 10:1), total of about 400 kids. Known for sour sucking rigor. Not very well known or discussed on DCUM (not compare to Blair/TJ). The program resides within Richard Montgomery High School (i.e., school within a school model).

[Anonymous]

^ soul sucking... even thou I kinda like "sour sucking"... sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL.

So hearsay from random parents that "Sidwell is a hippie school" or school visit propaganda about "heritage" and "distinction" = unimpeachable evidence.

But a list of which schools have the most National Merit scholars and highest SAT scores = "junk".

Duly noted.

Anonymous wrote:
Please don't use junk lists like this to figure out which private schools make sense for your child. Visit and talk to other parents.

Well, no, it actually doesn't report which schools had the "most" National Merit scholars. It reports the percentage that were semi-finalists. This isn't reflective of total population. If Sidwell has a 13% rate and Richard Montgomery school wide has a 6% rate, that still means there are more semi-finalists at Richard Montgomery than at Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

Is this a ploy by your company to push SSAT testing or TJ/Blair test prep? Frankly these rankings surprise me. I am going to echo posters asking why you didn't include VA publics? Maybe this supports the TJ brain drain theory...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

If you do that, at 1500, RMIB will be on the top.

If you cherrypick a subset of students from one high school, wouldn't you have to do it for all of the high schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

If you do that, at 1500, RMIB will be on the top.

It's number 17! Get over it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

If you do that, at 1500, RMIB will be on the top.

It's number 17! Get over it!

They counted Blair separately so why not the same for RM IB?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 Montgomery Blair Magnet 1488 25.69% 4.51% Not reported Magnet Silver Spring MD

17 Richard Montgomery High School 1190 6.22% 1.07% 4.45% Public Rockville MD

I don't know if the table is any good but I can tell you two schools I am familiar with (Blair and RM) are, at best, misleading.

For Blair Magnet
- 1488 is for SMAC kids
- 25.69% is for SMAC and PAC program combined.

For RM

- 1190 is entire school
- if you count just magnet (RM/IB), it's close to Blair
- 6.22% is wrong. RM/IB NMSF is over 40%

I guess what I am saying is the table seems to contain a lot of errors.

I was wondering this as well, seems like the RMIB needs to be reported separately.

If you do that, at 1500, RMIB will be on the top.

If you cherrypick a subset of students from one high school, wouldn't you have to do it for all of the high schools?

Public magents are app driven, test-in process. No different than private schools. In that regards, they are (public magents and privates) all "cherry-picked" kids.

The kids are not a "subset of students" in RM. The program spots are open to all county students.