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[quote=Anonymous]I take rankings with a LARGE grain of salt, because I know that schools with homogeneous middle class populations tend to score better. This is how schools outside of large metropolitan areas get ranked number 1.

MCPS is one of the nation's best school systems for kids with special needs and gifted kids: there are multiple special programs and magnets. DCUM tends to criticize them all and say they're insufficient, but I know that they're still better than what other public school systems have developed.

MCPS also deals with an large group of English learners, a large contingent who has arrived from Central America, but also, since we're close to Embassies and international institutions, some from educated, well-to-do foreign families.

This social hetereogeneity lowers scores. But I WANT that diversity. We are educated foreigners ourselves (not English learners, though) and we want a multi-cultural student body that brings various perspectives.  One of my kids needed an IEP in school, and had services and accommodations. It was great. I don't think he would have received them so easily anywhere else. My other kid is gifted and has benefited from all the acceleration that her high school has been able to give her. She will take multivariable calculus and differential equations in 11th grade, and about 14 APs.

Despite all the handwringing about MCPS on DCUM, I know this is a great school system and I am happy to be here.
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