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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blair's 2018 SAT score for the Magnet program is [b]1531[/b]
The whole school SAT score is [b]1318[/b].
This is from the school documents. [/quote]

Wow, that is a nice jump! The whole school mean SAT score for 2017 was 1142 according to

[url]https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf[/url]

Can you post a link for 2018?[/quote]
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A544d3cea-590a-4234-8efa-69b2be579481[/quote]

Way to go Blair![/quote]

We should try to understand the big jump.

One can check the MCPS page on SAT participation for class of 2018 here:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/data/LAR-charts/SAT-Participation.html

Unfortunately they do not provide the scores here, so we'll have to wait until they come out later.

But just for the participation:  look at various schools, we see that for example, for Blair, RM, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson, there are consistently significant increases compared to the class of 2017. 
For example, Blair:  351 tested out of 664  graduates (2017) to 493/696  (2018)

RM: 309/572 to 411/565
Churchill: 188/504 to 282/470
Wootton: 147/532 to 340/531
Walter Johnson: 298/553 to 406/556

Why?

Even more interesting, if you compare different reports, you get very different answers. 
for example, the SAT participation rate of Wootton in 2017, based on SAT participation webpage, it is 147/532 ~ 27.6%. But if  we look at the data provided by MCPS schools at a glance:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/glance/
you will see Wootton' SAT participation being 59%.

Big difference?

If we look at SAT participating rate from Blair: 
the class of 2017: 351/664 ~ 52.9% from the SAT Participation website, 65.2% from the MCPS schools at glance 
Class of 2018: 493/696 ~ 70.8% from the SAT Participation website, 80% from the Blair document link in PP.

My take is when we look at how things change in one school, or how things are across different schools, we need to compare data from the same report (i.e. data obtained using the same method/standard).
It is better to wait until the MCPS schools at glance report comes out for the class of 2018.

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SAT's are used for college admission. Rather than speculating about incomplete data, simply examine each high-school's college admission stats for 2018 which is published.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/september-october-2018/where-bethesda-area-high-school-grads-applied-to-college/

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You know the magnet program at Blair contributes to a large part of the high profile of Blair's college admission data, right?

We are not talking about how good a HS is. 
We are talking about how to choose an ES for a STEM gifted kid.

Note that an important part of that HS you can't get into by choosing the "RIGHT" ES. That is the whole point of this discussion. If you get into the magnet program, fine.
If not, choosing an ES in the Takoma area would not be a great idea since it feeds into the non-magnet part of the school.

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Yes, in fact, that was addressed by an earlier post in this thread. I belive they were able to definitelively showed Blair's SAT average for a particular group went from 1296 to 1326 because of the 30 something magnet students included in that group. [/quote]

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