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Totally off topic, but as someone from the Bay Area, when I first moved here and saw that sign on the 270 fwy, I chuckled.

Back to the topic at hand.. I've heard good things about Poolesville HS. [b]Always ranked really high in MD and nationally.[/b]  I thought about moving there for the school, but it's a bit too rural for me.[/quote]

Yes, that's what happens when half of the student body is magnet students who got admitted due to high standardized test scores.

For comparison, John Poole MS is 69% white, and 13% of students qualify for FARMs.[/quote]
 :roll: get over it.  There are many schools that are mostly white all over this country that don't do as well as Poolesville.  And yes, the school is ranked highly because there are a lot of smart students there.  Duh.

-non Poolesville parent[/quote]

Get over what?

Also: yes, as you say, Poolesville HS is ranked highly because when half of the students at a school, are there because of their high test scores, then that school will have high average school test scores. It would be weird if it didn't.[/quote]

Those magnet kids are still all upcounty kids, and it’s all upcounty academic talent. “Half the school population” is a GROSS over-exaggeration. It’s more like 1/4, [i]if that[/i]. Plenty of other schools have magnets too, and they don’t rank like Poolesville. B-CC has an IB program and yet it still ranks lower despite it being a much wealthier school. John Poole Middle has the same rating as Westland despite having more students receiving FARMS and similar percentages of Hispanic/Black students. Just take the L. [/quote]

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