Region-Wide 2017 SAT Scores (DC/MD/VA) By School
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Anonymous
Nothing quite says “peaked at 17” like that type of question. |
Anonymous
You mean like Seimans semi finalists and finalists? https://www.fcps.edu/news/six-fcps-students-named-regional-finalists-siemens-competition-math-science-and-technology-0 NMSFs— multiple schools National Young Arts Winners https://www.fcps.edu/news/students-recognized-national-youngarts-foundation-competition Crappies— multiple schools Marching band (Madison is often the school to beat) FIRST Robotics: that’s Chantilly TJ has an unusually high concentration of talent. But they are not the only school in FCPS with talented kids. — TJ parent |
Anonymous
Is that question so difficult? |
Anonymous
Wow! That's the best you can do? One school was a regional not NATIONAL semi-final beside TJ in 2016. FIRSTRobotics: Chantilly. ..among FCPS schools! Seriously! ! |
Anonymous
It actually is. TJ parent, and I’m not sure we even have an It’s Academic team. Definitely not sure why a trivia completion involving a handful of is the yard stick by which schools are measured. More important than SATs which measures all ? Really? More important than the Wells Fargo Cup, which covers multiple academic competitions? More important than NMSFs? Or Presidential Scholars? Or Seimans semi-finalists, which deals with real world application? Sounds like some HS junior is a little too proud of making his ZhS’sbIt’s Academic team. |
Anonymous
You are a TJ Parent and you're not sure if they have an "it's academics " team? Really! It's not the most important, but since they all compete on it, how many of those 11 have won it? With such great SAT scores, the least they can win should be this one, right? Btw, the SAT doesn't "measures all," not even close. It measures in general your SES and how good a test-taker you are. |
Anonymous
TJ has over 20 Academic Teams that are supported by the Academic Boosters: https://academics.tjhsst.edu/aboosters/teams.htm Last year, the booklet recognizing TJ academic team accomplishments (separate from individual accomplishments, like Siemens) was 30 pages long, excluding pages recognizing sponsors, etc.. https://academics.tjhsst.edu/aboosters/documents/TJHSST-2017AB-AwardsBooklet.pdf I do know TJ qualified 3 teams for the National Quizbowl tournament. And had the best Rubiks Cube team in the county (which is random), has some of the best debaters in the nation and regularly places a kid or 2 or the National physics Olympics team, and of course regularly wins National Math olympiads and tops out in AMC. Because TJ newsletters. It’s Academic was not recognized or supported by Academic Boosters. So it is not one of the top 25 or so Academic competition teams at TJ. I have no idea if it exists as an 8th period independent club— becuase TJ has over 200 of these. I also know, for example, that Chantilly has a kick ass robotics team, becuase DD’s friend is on it. I know Madison has a strong band, becuase I have a band kid, and go to competitions. I had not heard of it’s Academic until you started bragging about it. Then I had to Google it. Good for you for making the team. But everyone else cares about as much as they do about TJ’s Rubiks Cube team. The measure of a good school is not how the its academic team (or any other team) does in competition. It’s college placement and how well it prepares its kids to succeed in college, and in life. TJ, and the rest of FCPS, is doing just fine by this metric. |
Anonymous
For a TJ Parent, you are definitely clueless about TJ academics. It's Academics has always been one of the top competition at TJ. Every stage win is reported in their website and newsletters. The i"t's Academics" team probably was not recognized last year because it did not win it. Next you are going to tell me that Intel/Regeneron science is not a big deal at TJ, right? |
Anonymous
| Weird that a TJ parent feels the need to brag about the school and all its academic teams. You really don’t need to convince the rest of us that TJ is a great school. Hope your kid gets into Harvard or MIT as you seem really insecure. |
Anonymous
lolz would have been better staying at base school if thats the goal all you tiger moms on here are pathetic. I feel really bad for your kids. There is more to life than average SATs. When is the last time someone asked what your SATs were I mean seriously what a bunch of pathetic pearl clutching DCUM morons |
Anonymous
This isn’t about your SATs. It’s about those of current students. And DC, PG, much of PW, and eastern MoCo can’t even hit the national average. Sad. |
Anonymous
They cared about my SATs quite a bit when I applied to college. Getting into good college, plus a high GPA and LSAT made a good law school possible. High SATs also helped me get the merit aid to get through college without debt. Good grades in a good law school made it possible for me to get a good job. And employers ask about my law school and class rank all the time. So yes, SATs, and the top college with a merit scholarship that came with them, mattered a lot in my life. If you plan to flip burgers at McDs, I doubt they matter at all. |
Anonymous
It's the black and Hispanic test score gap, 100%. If you look at race by race comparisons across the country, I expect most of those high schools are beating the average. But this gap is real and it's national and there's no point blaming the schools for it or claiming that schools with mostly white kids are doing some magical teaching to keep scores so high. |
Anonymous
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To follow up my previous post, there's a table on here showing national data on average SAT scores by race. The differences are significant. So when you see these rankings of SAT scores by area high schools, ask yourself if they aren't just rankings of numbers of white and Asian kids vs brown kids.
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2017/08/07/look-data-and-arguments-about-asian-americans-and-admissions-elite |
Anonymous
The MCPS schools that hit below national average are majority hispanic with a large esol population. I can't speak of the other schools in DC and in PG since I don't have the knowledge of the demographics of those schools, but I bet its the same thing. To the PP referencing this as sad, you really should do a little digging and get educated on the achievement gap. Snap out of your little bubble my friend! |