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There are a lot of families on this forum who send their kids to Einstein and who are very happy.  Many of them report that their children have been highly successful post graduation from Einstein.  There is however a very noticeable difference in the real estate prices for homes zoned for WJ and homes zoned for Einstein (I would say it is close to $150,000) so there is justifiable concern about how a redistricting out of WJ would impact real estate values.  For many middle class families, our homes are our most important asset.

I have looked at a couple of reports to see if there are objective differences in the performance of students at WJ and Einstein so we can go beyond anecdotes.

The first looks at SAT scores by school and breaks scores down by race etc. for each school .  It is long but a lot of good information can be found on just one page (Table A8 in the Appendix)
https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf
Every single student subgroup performs better in WJ by at least 100 points.

The second report looks at AP and IB results.  It is even longer and harder to find one table that lays it all out.  It looks like AP results are better at WJ.  There is however a small group of students at Einstein that take IB tests (only 66 students at Einstein took one or more IB test compared to 282 at BCC and 189 at Rockville).  These 66 students do well and 85% of them score 4 or higher on the test.  See Table D3a and D3b
https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2018/2017%20AP%20IB%20Course%20Enrollment%20and%20Exam%20Participation%20Performance.pdf

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I look at these reports and I must say I find the results a little perplexing. I seem to remember that the five middle school clusters that had the largest number of children who were deemed qualified for the middle school magnets were Frost, Hoover, Sligo, Silver Spring international and Pyle. Why aren’t the corresponding High schools producing similar results?  [/quote]

The cohort gets split up to various high schools in the DCC for Sligo and SSIMS.[/quote]
Sligo is zoned for Einstein so you should see much better results for Einstein with such a large number of high performers coming up from Sligo. Unless many of these kids are opting for Blair or Wheaton?[/quote]

From the families I know some kids at Blair for CAP or magnet, 1 at Wheaton, the rest at Einstein.[/quote]
SSIMS recently hosted an event where former SSIMS students spoke to current 8th graders about their respective high schools. Only one was at Einstein, and one or two at Kennedy. The vast majority were at Blair (regular, CAP and SMAC), Wheaton Biomed magnet and Northwood.[/quote]

Because they didn’t invite the 98% of students who pass through with mediocre results [/quote]
Your comment is a non sequitur, misinformed and misunderstood the point of the prior posts. But hey, you do you, troll.[/quote]

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