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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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Zero chance. I’ve sent 2 kids through SJC.  Every year there are freshman who enroll who took Geometry in middle school. And “advanced algebra” would probably be Honors Algebra II, which is usually taken by sophomores (and the freshman who place into it), not seniors.

Most parents who opt for SJC over MCPS do so because they want a different environment for their child (discipline, real deadlines for work, midterms and finals, access to bathrooms, no bomb threats or lockdowns, etc).As for academics, SJC prepared my kids for college, which to me is the only objective standard for academics. Both got all 5s on their APs, did well on their SATs, got into many selective colleges (acceptance rates below 20%) and ended up at T20 colleges.

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