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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do the academics compare between a W high school and St John’s College High School? The male student will be taking honors and AP courses in high school.[/quote]

My kid went to SJCHS his freshman year, and back to MCPS after that. Without a doubt, the W schools are far more rigorous. My freshman son, good at math, but no magnet student, placed into a senior math class at St Johns.[/quote]

Senior math? Which class exactly is that?[/quote]

It was an advanced algebra class. My son took geometry at TPMS in 8th grade. He evidently was only incoming ninth grader at SJCHS who had taken  geometry. The head of the math department called me at work, excited about his test results. She thought they might need to send him to Catholic University for his upper class math since he was so far ahead. My son was helping upperclass students in his math class at St. Johns. St. Johns was at least one year behind MCPS with math. He went to Blair for sophomore to senior years, where he did well in math, but he was not at magnet level.

One thing to ask at St. Johns is how many teachers there are certified teachers. It's not always the case that they are. The Catholic schools pay less. [/quote]

There is zero chance this PP had the only child coming into SJC haven taken Geometry. Many to most of the DCPS kids coming in have taken Geometry and plenty (no idea the actual number) are placed into higher level math at SJC. My kid in 9th had other freshman in her Honors precalc class.

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The Catholic schools have their own cohort advancing to Catholic high schools, so yeah, there is more than a zero chance, whether you want to believe me or not.  How many DCPS students switch to Catholic schools for high school? Where do you find that data? At any rate, this was our experience, for consideration by the OP.[/quote]

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