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[quote=Anonymous]A bright, motivated high schooler can supplement and learn what they need to learn in other places besides high school. But that's a lot harder than just going to a high school where you'll have a peer group, which a kid who is years ahead academically is not going to have at another regional high school in DC. Look at AP test scores-- Wilson is listed as having 418 students with a 3+ score, and the next regional high school is CHEC with 28. Four of the regional high schools have 0 kids getting at least a 3 on an AP test. Do kids have to take and do well on AP classes to be prepared for college? Of course not, but this is not a bad proxy for the level of academic challenge and where their classmates will be. You can read about kids who excelled at those high schools and then got into selective colleges and struggled because they were not prepared for that level of work.

Banneker and Walls are both much better options than any of the other regional high schools in DC. [/quote]

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