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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was mostly summer property originally, but I’ve heard there’s more permanent residents now. It’s extremely WASPY and old money. I’ve heard that virtually all the children on the island attend private schools in Annapolis and pass over the public schools. Chesapeake is not rated a 9/10, it’s rated a 4/10, but that’s probably because of the faulty/non-existent AP participation data for AACPS high schools pushing the rating down. The elementary schools in the area are still rated well. My impression of CHS is that it’s not as highly-regarded as Severna Park, Broadneck, Arundel, and South River High Schools, but that it’s still considered a fine school [/quote]

Chesapeake is a 4/10 because a lot of Pasadena is pretty poor. I am a part-timer on Gibson Island but have met a couple of families with kids who live there full time. They send their kids to private school in Baltimore, which is a hike. It is a pretty wonderful place in my opinion (I guess WASPy is a fair statement, but becoming less so), but it strikes me that it might be a bit lonely for kids.  [/quote]

Most of the “poor” part of Pasadena feeds to Northeast and Glen Burnie High Schools. Chesapeake’s FARM rate is only 14%, that’s low. Chesapeake’s cluster  isn’t that socio-economically different from the Broadneck area. It’s mostly middle-class with many upper-middle-class parts, a few pockets of lower-middle-class, and a few pockets of very big money near the water. I do remember that Chesapeake used to be a lot higher in the rankings a few years ago, not sure what happened. GS rates CHS’ test scores above average for the state, but it has a 2/10 equity rating and a 5/10 college readiness rating (probably because of the missing AP participation data), and those seem to be things dragging it down to a 4/10 overall. It’s in the top 30% of high schools in MD for AP participation, and my guess is that it would be rated around a 6/10 if GS had the correct AP data. [/quote]

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