2016 Best DC Metro Area High Schools
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Anonymous
One can argue that the top two schools selected every student based on testing ability and past academic performance at an age when those things were very accurate indicators of future performance. Schools three thru ten accepted most of their students when they were much younger and their performance relies more on the quality of the school than prescreening for ninth grade. |
Anonymous
Good point! Maybe, MBHS shouldn't be number 2. |
Anonymous
If you include RM magnet 1. RMIB magnet 1500 (avg SAT) 40% (NMSF) 2. Blair magnet 1488 25.69 3. TJ magnet 1466 31.90 then rest... |
Anonymous
Links for 1500 SAT and 40% (NMSF)? |
Anonymous
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/rmhs/ib/IB%202015-16%20Profile.pdf See bottom of page 1. Each class is 100 kids National Merit Scholarship Competition; Semifinalists Class of 2016 - 40 • The Median SAT scores for the Class of 2016. Verbal - 750 Math - 750 Writing - 730 Total - 2240 |
Anonymous
| Doesn't that document say 114 enrolled, not 100? |
Anonymous
kids drop out as they move up the grade for various reasons - mostly due to rigor/stress. |
Anonymous
I'm confused. Are you saying exactly enough drop out every year to make the class 100 students? Here are some other links - All of RM had 28 semifinalists in 2010, so perhaps 40 in 2015 is something of a high water mark? http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedfiles/schools/rmhs/46062_profilebrochure.pdf RMIB program had 26 semifinalists in 2013 http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/rmhs/ib/Sample%20Senior%20letter.pdf Other RMIB data from a brochure http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/rmhs/ib/OFFICIAL%20FINAL%20OPEN%20HOUSE%202014.pdf No one's saying your child's program isn't a good one. Seems like an excellent magnet program for the right kids. But may I suggest you're working a little too hard to sell it here, and you're engaging in the sort of hypercompetitive one-upsmanship that is not particularly healthy? Also, just as you can cherrypick certain statistics that paint RMIB in a favorable light, others can cherrypick other statistics that paint it less favorably. I like the advice someone posted earlier about finding the right program for each child, and not making the mistake of thinking that the program will somehow change the child significantly. |
Anonymous
1. It says 114 were accepted and enrolled not 100. 2. The data for ranking methodology is using average SAT not median SAT score to rank. The cited SAT scores are median scores. 3. For class of 2016 40/114=35% (The actual ranking appears to have used older data from 2006 to 2015 not just 1 year for 2016) 4. For example, TJ had 169 NMSF for 2016 so that would make the % of NMSF 169/480=35.2% |
Anonymous
That's fine. I wasn't trying to sell anything. Just reacting to the table OP posted. What do I care about what people think about my kid's school, right? Number 1 on the list is fine, number 17 is fine...whatever is fine. Rankings add no value. |
Anonymous
I seem to remember that this list was bouncing around DCUM late last year and resulted in the same "my kid's school should have ranked higher" pissing contests. So, I guess, here we go again... |
Anonymous
There was a Blair supporter saying how Blair magnet was better than TJ and now there is a RM supporter doing the same thing. |
Anonymous
| How does GDS have such low average SAT scores yet manage to get half of its 12th graders into Harvard each year?? (Sorry, couldn't resist) |
Anonymous
It's not about TJ, idiot. |
Anonymous
| Why is NCS' SAT score 49 points higher than STA yet STA has a higher portion of NMSFs? |