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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.[/quote]

My kid went to SJCHS his freshman year, and back to MCPS after that. Without a doubt, the W schools are far more rigorous. My freshman son, good at math, but no magnet student, placed into a senior math class at St Johns.[/quote]

Senior math? Which class exactly is that?[/quote]

It was an advanced algebra class. My son took geometry at TPMS in 8th grade. He evidently was only incoming ninth grader at SJCHS who had taken  geometry. The head of the math department called me at work, excited about his test results. She thought they might need to send him to Catholic University for his upper class math since he was so far ahead. My son was helping upperclass students in his math class at St. Johns. St. Johns was at least one year behind MCPS with math. He went to Blair for sophomore to senior years, where he did well in math, but he was not at magnet level.

One thing to ask at St. Johns is how many teachers there are certified teachers. It's not always the case that they are. The Catholic schools pay less. [/quote]

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