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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]looking at moving to one of these school districts...curious for people's thoughts on how the high schools compare. particularly, how the moco schools compare to wilson (level of rigor, diverse course offerings, how much of a pressure cooker, "culture"). cross-posting in the dc forum as well. [/quote]

All will have more rigor than Wilson.

Blair is divided into magnet Vs non magnet, so [b]you are either with the top 2% of students in this highly educated county, or you are in with a lot of Central American immigrants.[/b] It’s rough.

WJ is pretty good, though very suburban. A bit of a pressure cooker.

BCC has super high achieving kids from Chevy Chase, Bethesda, and Silver Spring, but it also has another element.

Read the reviews on Great Schools and Niche. [/quote]

So, without insinuating that there is anything wrong with Central American immigrants, that's just not how HS works. At Blair, or any other MCPS high school, classes are largely homogenous. So, even a non-magnet kid who was university-bound would take Honors English 9, Algebra II, AP US History, and an advanced science class. Unlike Wilson, MCPS is not doing "honors for all" at the HS level, so you do get some differentiation there.

Yes, Blair has new Americans who had their previous education interrupted, and I'm glad those kids can get an education. But the kid who was a goatherd until three years ago is going to take different classes than the well-supported middle class kids who make up a big swathe of Blair.

The only other school on your list that I have experience with is B-CC. It's an odd duck. Really rich kids, genuinely middle class kids, and some working class kids. Given residential/educational segregation in MoCo, it's unusual to have such a wide band in one school. The one thing I'd say is that B-CC has a reputation for some kind of douchey frat-bro behavior. I'm not sure why there would be more of those white hatted, flip-flop wearing, lacrosse dudes at B-CC than at another Bethesda school, but it's one stereotype that holds some truth. [/quote]

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