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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP, I live in PG.  The accepted knowledge around here is that most of the elementary schools are acceptable, but when you get into middle and high school, it's a lot more tricky.  I live here on the assumption that we will try to work with the elementary schools and probably choose private for middle and high school.[/quote]

OP here.  While that is your choice and I respect it, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of you paying taxes to support public education only to pay additional monies for private school?  Again I'm not criticizing you.  That is like parents who live in Garden City NY ( a very wealthy place on LI with very  good schools) sending their kids to private school.  Why?

Why is there such a disconnect (the best I can describe it) between the elementary/middle schools and high schools?  I know everything is test driven (which I'm not a huge fan of) but if you come from a good elementary/middle school why and how does the performance at the high school level drop?  [/quote]

This is because of the wider "feeder" area for all of the high schools....for example, one high school could have four middle school feeder schools. Two of them could have stellar scores, the other two have terrible scores, (and yes, that is geographically possible for schools feeding into one high school, it can cover quite a large area in some parts of the county), so when you have everyone in the same high school then that's what you get. I personally chose where I bought my home based on middle school because I do not want to pay for private until high school. There are many fewer high performing middle schools in the county than elementary schools, so that could help you narrow your search. I do not think there are any proposed boundary changes soon (correct me if I'm wrong), so you could be pretty secure in your choice for now, and if there were proposed boundary changes could be part of the process to ensure where you live does not get written out of the boundary for the school you want. Good luck![/quote]

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