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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As per the link:

"[b]The Forbes analysis focused on 775 counties with more than 65,000 residents [/b]that had the highest average property taxes. Forbes narrowed the final list to 97 by looking at the jurisdictions where more than 50 percent of the education spending came from property taxes. The study examined the per pupil spending costs adjusted for the cost of living in these communities and compared them with national student performance indicators such as SAT scores and participation rates and high school graduation rates. "[/quote]

Sounds like they only focused on counties, not on towns - and on large counties at that.

"Ranked fifth" is misleading.  I'd be interested to know how it really ranks, if you compare each and every school system nationwide, including towns with small populations of highly-educated people.[/quote]

Why is it misleading...  who cares if a tiny school district in Montana is the best if it doesn't serve a large number of students.  The analysis shows districts where one could realisticly move to and be served.  There no way around MCPS being one of the best all things considered...[/quote]

It is misleading because there are vast swaths of the country (New England, New York, New Jersey) whose school systems are town-based, not county-based (you would call them "tiny" but by town standards many are not), but as good - and in many cases much better - than MCPS.  None of these systems (or the other 46 in the list in the OP link), however, are taken into account, because none of them is county-based.

One could very realistically move e.g. to Weston, Wellesley, Newton, or Natick, Mass (for example), and be served better than one is served in MCPS.   Consider also Greenwich, Madison, Ridgefield, New Canaan, Westport, Fairfield, CT; Manhattan Beach, CA;  Barrington, RI; Cape Elizabeth, Yarmouth, Falmouth, Maine (that last voted best school district in the country for your real estate buck).  The list goes on and on.  All of these systems are town-based, many not "tiny" (at least by local standards), many or most have results that beat those of MCPS.

That is what is misleading about the "fifth" ranking.  MCPS is not really "fifth" if you take ALL school systems, county- *and* town-based, into account.

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