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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are looking at moving to Maryland close in to DC along the red line and have started investigating the schools. We are white UMC and have a student who is reasonably intelligent but not that academically motivated, so will need a push from school.

Based on Great School ratings and other reputational rankings there seem to be very sharp differences between schools in the Silver Spring area like Montgomery Blair, Albert Einstein, and Northwood, as compared to Bethesda/Chevy Chase schools like B-CC, Whitman, and Walter Johnson. But they are all part of the same system. When I look at the school stats on the MCPS web site the big difference seem to be racial makeup (although frankly all schools are pretty diverse) and the proportion of kids taking the SATs. Are the reputational differences mostly just picking this up? What difference will it actually make to our kid's high school experience?[/quote]

GS rating won't tell you anything helpful. All these schools have large high-achieving cohorts and offer more or less the same classes. Pick whichever area works best for you. Honestly, your kids will be fine at any of them.[/quote]

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