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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello, I was wondering about Richard Montgomery's non-IB program, and the extent to which it is high performing.  I wanted to get past demographic / wealth / income issues, and found these set of data: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/data/LAR-charts/SAT-Performance.html

RM's AP data for non-FARMS student is quite on par and for some of the data point beats the various "W" schools. I was wondering, to what extent the AP data reflects the rest of the RM student population.  Or are the IB students ALSO taking the AP tests, and thus the AP performance data reflects more of that small subset of students.  -- Thank you.[/quote]
NP here. I teach at RM. The Magnet program is bringing ~100 kids per grade level in to the school, added to ~500 home school students (~600 total per grade level). There are ~25 home school students also in the magnet each year, however many advanced home school students choose not to apply to the magnet knowing that they still have the option to join the DP programme in 11th grade. ~25 additional students join the DP in 11th, but there are also many other capable students that choose not to because they prefer the flexibility of the AP program and have other time commitments (such as varsity athletics).

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/contentassets/791d9e3ecf514dffa7e5f8b8cffd2a27/5451_23_rmhs-profile.pdf 
The school profile (for colleges) shows total AP and IB exams. In 11th and 12th grade some, but not all, IB students also take the AP exam corresponding to their IB exam. If you look at the # of test takers, IB + magnet students are approximately 50% of the AP test takers. You can also look at the [url=https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d-6zAd1REAxiFpUSaTlHlwspXZfWPnqX61C93lOYGtA/edit#slide=id.g14965bc159e_0_31]course offerings[/url] and see that there are AP classes separate from IB classes. The AP classes with IB equivalents are home school students (e.g. AP World, AP Enviro). There is plenty of demand for them. Some AP classes don't have an IB equivalent (AP Statistics, AP Psychology) and some IB classes don't have and AP equivalent (IB Philosophy, IB Film) so both AP and IB students are together in the course. There is plenty of academic rigor available to students not in the IBDP.[/quote]

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