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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're comparing various FCPS high schools, in my opinion the best measure is to look at their AP Exam results.  This will give you the best idea of whether the school has a lot of high achieving kids or not.  FCPS publishes all this data on its website if you search through the News Releases.

http://commweb.fcps.edu/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?newsid=2127

In particular, you can see the number of kids who made AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Honor, AP Scholar with Distinctin, and National AP Scholar at each campus.  There are simliar stats for IB campuses.   I think this is particularly helpful info because success on AP/IB exam is not just a function of how many smart kids are at the school--it also measures the quality of the AP teaching at that campus.  Even a really smart kid will struggle to get a 4/5 on an AP Exam with an ineffective teacher.   You have to take into account that some high schools are smaller/larger when comparing the number of AP Scholars, but I think this is the best quantifiable measure of academic quality you are going to find in comparing high schools. [/quote]

+1000

Great post![/quote]

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