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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m still trying to figure this out. For me it goes beyond the test score listed on great schools. What else makes up a good school? We are house shopping and see some with lower scores but the community loves the school, while others say they don’t want anything to do with the school because of the score. I live in Howard County.[/quote]

Before kids, I always thought good schools are ones where the scores were high, so that was what I was looking for when I house hunted.  Now that we had bought in a "good school" area and have kids in the system, my definition of "good school" has definitely changed.  For one, good schools is a place where you have a solid admin with caring principals and teachers who communicate often with parents.  While some teachers are excellent at our school, the communication is very poor.

Another trait would be a school that is able to meet the needs of all sorts of learners.  In our "W" school, my kids are considered higher performers.  What that means for them is they barely get any teacher attention during reading and math blocks.  The highest reading groups meet about 10 minutes a couple of times a week, if even that, and then are told to go back to their desks to complete worksheets.  Most of these worksheets aren't returned to them until a much later time, they never get the proper feedback to improve.  My child is also told that he gets "enriched math" but really isn't anything different.  So pretty much the good scores that these early elementary school kids get are not due to the school, but due to the parents enriching them outside.  There are a couple of "W" schools who do pullouts, but it appears as though it is admin discretion rather than something that is built into part of the system.[/quote]

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