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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to base your ratings on something, at least do it by graduation rates. You can come up with your own tiers from here.

1.	Walt Whitman High (97.9 percent)
2.	Thomas S. Wootton High (97.8 percent)
3.	Winston Churchill High (97.4 percent)
4.	Poolesville High (96.2 percent)
5.	Walter Johnson High (95.8 percent)
6.	Quince Orchard High (95.6 percent)
7.	Northwest High (94.95 percent)
8.	Bethesda-Chevy Chase High (94.42 percent)
9.	Damascus High (93.98 percent)
10.	Sherwood High (93.89 percent)
11.	Richard Montgomery High (92.24 percent)
12.	Clarksburg High (91.52 percent)
13.	Paint Branch High (90.55 percent)
14.	James Hubert Blake High (90.21 percent)
15.	Montgomery Blair High (86.21 percent)
16.	Col. Zadok Magruder High (89.59 percent)
17.	Springbrook High (87.83 percent)
18.	Seneca Valley High (86.21 percent)
19.	Rockville High (86.02 percent)
20.	Watkins Mill High (84.5 percent)
21.	Albert Einstein High (81.93 percent)
22.	John F. Kennedy High (81.22 percent)
23.	Northwood High (79.36 percent)
24.	Gaithersburg High (77.39 percent)
25.	Wheaton High (77.36 percent)
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Eh, I went to a small rural high school that had a 99.9 percent graduation rate (low FARMS rate too), and something like 90% of us went to college in the fall. So I guess you could say we were a fantastic high school. But then I would also tell you that there were no AP classes, very few kids got to calculus, no National Merit Scholars, I was in honors English classes the entire time and only read one complete novel in four years, few kids did 4 years of foreign languages, there were few specialized courses beyond the basic history, math, English, sciences, we had no rigorous instruction in writing papers, and most of the schools that students headed out to were community colleges or some local branches of the state university system. Very, very few top tier schools, probably 2-3 per class (by which I mean a school like Notre Dame).

So you know, there are different ways of saying how excellent a school is.  I'd take my child's amazing high school education at Blair with its 86.21% graduation rate any day over my 99.9% graduation rate high school. It's 10x more rigorous than what I experienced.
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Doesn't Whitman have terrible scores these days? [/quote]

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