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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quince Orchard would be my choice among the listed schools, although I have to say that know quite a few kids from nice families who have attended and are attending Gaithersburg High, and they have done very well there.   It is a very different environment than QO is, though.  And honestly, the kids who have attended the schools which feed into G'burg High don't pay much attention to the diversity, because it is what they have experienced at their other schools.  I hate the fact that people think it's full of gangs and that no non-minority child would be in danger there, because it's just not true.

Information on incidents at each school is available on the MCPS website if you dig a little.  You might be surprised.  Here are a few facts from 2010-2011:  Northwest had higher reported incidents of Arson, Attack, Disrespect/Insubordination/Disruption (almost 3x that of Gburg and QO), and twice the amount of Theft incidents than Gaitherburg.  Did you hear that?  More than the 'tough' Gaithersburg!!  Gaithersburg had more Fighting and more Threat incidents than Northwest.  QO had fewer incidents of all types than Gaithersburg or Northwest, except it had more incidents of Dangerous Substances than Northwest.

Good luck with your search for a home, OP.

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Yes that is what the school system website says but the information is as only good as the people supplying the information.  For years Northwest was famous for reporting nothing.  Nada.  It made it sound like that it was a squeaky clean school.  Then they had the armed robbery in the hallway and the police discovered that Northwest was not reporting serious incidents.

If stats show that Gaithersburg has low stats then its bogus.  [/quote]

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