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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=teluguru][quote=Anonymous]DP.

Poolesville is #1 in MCPS and Maryland and #140 in the Nation.

Yes, it's a long drive, so either stay at Clarksburg or buckle down.  That's a personal decision for your kid.

Whomever says Watkins Mill or Seneca Valley is a good idea is shilling you.[/quote]

This is one of the  criteria for me leaning towards  Poolsville.  Does studying in high ranking HS  benefit during college admissions ?  [/quote]
No. And it can be harder to get into very selective schools because your are competing directly with other talented kids in the school.

Poolesville is only high ranking because half the school is magnet kids. When you skim the top talent from other schools and then base ranking on number of AP courses, of course the school looks good on paper. I had a kid in Global and a kid in SMCS. The teachers were just as average as teachers elsewhere in MCPS (one or two were great, most good, are pretty bad).[/quote]

I'm the one who posted the #1 Poolesville ranking.

Read this person's post.  "I had a kid".  "Teachers were just as average as teachers elsewhere."  Whomever posted this is blowing smoke and my guess is working for the County Council or MCPS Central Office trying to downplay how badly MCPS academices have tanked in recent years under McKnight and the current Central Office.

There are 25000 High Schools, and ranked HS one of many factors if you're looking for a good college since your kid may be able to leverage magnet or dual enrollment easier than at your current school.  Again, I would recommend either stay at your home school or Poolesville.  Good luck![/quote]
The one who’s blowing smoke here doesn’t have a kid at Poolesville and is clearly an MCPS hater bringing irrelevant info into this conversation. My kids graduated 2018 and 2022. Their experiences are still relevant and the teachers haven’t changed since then. [b]I got a firsthand look at the lack of actual instruction in the SMCS program during the virtual year. [/b]I also have neighbors who went to Watkins Mill IB and their kids really enjoyed the program.

There are at least two posters on this thread with negative actual experience at PVHS. OP can decide which information is more important - numbers on paper or actual experience.[/quote]

Very true.[/quote]

But don't you think that mirrors what all schools were dealing with during the pandemic? Virtual was suboptimal overall. But there's a general shift that has happened - from lecturing/explaining to facilitating consumption of academic videos/texts and setting up practice.

We are not in virtual anymore, but I have noticed my youngest in 6th (AIM) is basically teaching herself nowadays. The teacher assigns some videos, some Khan Academy, some IXL etc. [/quote]

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