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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think there is any bump for non-hooked kids.

My kids left DCPS for a Big3 private in 9th grade.  They were able to get into the Big3 private because they were at the very top of their DCPS cohort: PARCC scores at the 99%, grades all 98%+, top math track etc.  
Now at the Big3 privates they are both around the 80% of their grades.  There are kids who are smarter than they are and who had better preparation PK-8th. My kids are not hooked.  
My senior is ending up at a college ranked 20-30.  Not a bad result!  However, peers who remained at JRHS are also getting the same results, if not higher schools.  And these kids were the average kids in the classes 
that my kids left. 
I have a few friends whose kids also left DCPS and they are having the same experience.  Many of the smartest kids leave DCPS and get into the same colleges that the average kids who stayed at DCPS get into.

The good news about leaving is that my kids have learned an absolute phenomenal amount since leaving and were learning next to nothing in DCPS.  I had my kids in DCPS or a collective 30+ years so I'm not disparaging the schools as an outsider but as a parent who has a decade plus of experience at every level. [/quote]

Compare the 2024 (or 2023) college destinations of JR to GDS, Sidwell, Maret, etc. JR students, on average, are attending much lower ranked colleges. You rarely see Big 3/5 student’s attending GMU, JMU, or regionally ranked colleges, but you see that in abundance at JR. I don’t know how your child performed academically at his private, but if his results are similar to a wide swath of JR, then your child did something wrong. [/quote]

There are only 70 results posted for JR...that's less than 20% of the class that will actually go to college (only about 14% of the total class).  It is easily a drop of 50% of postings at this time last year.  Stop relying on instagram postings as anything close to definitive...it's not.  It is no longer reliable for much of anything.
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Let’s focus on facts:
1.  JR’s enrollment (2022-2023): 2,153 (~538 students per grade)
2.  JR’s graduation rate (according to Niche): 87% (468 students)
3.  Percentage of graduating JR students attending 2 or 4 year colleges, immediately following graduation (according to JR/DCPS’ website: 90% of the 468 graduates (421 students)

Last year, there were 206 JR Instagram posts. That represents nearly 50% of the 421 students who graduated and attended a 2 or 4 year college in 2023. Seven (7) of the students who posted are freshman at Ivies (including one URM recruited athlete).

Big 3/5 DC Metro schools routinely send 15% to 25%+ of their graduating classes to Ivies. If JR sent 30 students to Ivies last year (that definitely didn’t happen), then that would still only be 7.1% of the class that continued on to college.

In summary, the facts make it clear that if your child is aiming for Ivies (difficult for everyone), they have a much better shot statistically if they attend a Big 3/5, as compared to JR. [/quote]

How about the well regarded publics like Arlington, W schools, McLean, Langley, Oakton, TJ, Poole? The honor/AP kids from these publics do well.[/quote]

W school students don’t do as well as Big 3/5 private schools. You can read about it here: https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/[/quote]

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