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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a catch 22.

If you pick a neighborhood where the schools are mostly UMC, your kid will be competing with those kids for colleges, but they will more than likely have a higher achieving peer group with less (not zero) behavioral issues.  However, your kid will always be comparing themselves to the Joneses, as it were.

Whereas a school with a mix of SES may have more issues, but there still may be a significant group of higher achieving kids but still tough for college admissions.

If your kid goes to a lower SES school but is high achieving, they will have a better shot at elite universities, however, there will likely be more behavioral issue and less higher achieving students (hence a higher chance of elite college admissions from that school).

YMMV of course, but I would pick #2.  That's what we did.[/quote]

There are NOVA high schools with mixed SES student bodies where a student on a top track will rarely if ever be in the same class as a student on a bottom track [/quote]
PP here, yes, we are in MCPS and that's true to some degree, especially AP classes.

However, "honors" classes are a joke, and in many HS, those are the only classes; no regular classes for that subject.  There aren't too many AP classes for freshman/sophmores, though my kids have taken two as freshmens.

So classes like math, which my kids are in the advanced track, and some AP classes are self segregated but that's about it.

Like I said, it's a catch 22 because I also didn't want my kids surrounded by just UMC wealthy families. We are lower UMC, but we are fairly frugal. My kids don't have the latest and greatest, and we drive normal cars.  We did live in a very wealthy area when our kids were younger, and I didn't want my kids going to a HS where the parking lot looks like a luxury car dealership.  That's not the  environment I want my kids surrounded by.[/quote]

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