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Reply to "Montgomery County shut out of top 10 elementary schools"
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[quote=Anonymous]I just looked at the methodology, and it looks both extremely vague and extremely weird. It mentions surveys, but I have no idea who they surveyed or how. It's "proprietary." Looking into the "detail" for my MCPS school shows that it received a B+ (its lowest grade) for 'student culture and diversity", but there's no meaningful explanation of how this was calculated (again, there's a vague reference to surveys). It does get an "A+" for "Teachers Grade" FWIW. I noticed an odd clustering of schools that are near each other geographically (like the Potomac schools all together, and Wyngate/Ashburton/KP all being ranked together) which suggests to me that the rankings are weirdly dependent on certain geographical features like student demographics and the school district as a whole. You can't really tell from the explanation. At least "great schools" is more transparent about how it does its rankings. [/quote]
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