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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tier 1:

Bethesda
Potomac
Chevy Chase 
Gibson Island

Tier 1.5:

Kensington 
Annapolis 
Garrett Park
Travilah

Tier 2:

North Bethesda
North Potomac
Rockville (Wootton/WJ/RM school zones)
Clarksville/all of Western Howard County 
Ellicott City 
Gambrills
Davidsonville
Arnold
Mitchellville
Severna Park

Tier 2.5:

Gaithersburg 
Bowie
Crofton
Odenton 
Olney
Fort Washington
Takoma Park 
Laytonsville
Columbia
Crownsville 
Millersville 
Upper Marlboro 
Urbana

Tier 3:

Cape St Claire
Edgewater
Silver Spring 
Germantown 
Poolesville 
Frederick 
Elkridge 
Laurel (Howard County portions)
Bowie 
Hyattsville

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Way too many Anne Arundel County spots on here. Odenton? Gambrills? Come on now.
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And what’s wrong with that? Odenton and Gambrills are both upper-middle-class suburbs with good schools. They are absolutely comparable to places in their “tier.” In fact, Odenton/Gambrills have better schools than almost every other town in their “tier” (sorry Blair, even people all the way out here are highly aware that your school is garbage and that magnet kids from Bethesda push up the rankings). [/quote]

Odenton/Gambrills are Clarksburg/Damascus, be serious[/quote]

You all are laughing, meanwhile you're sending your kids to an MCPS school that is equivalent to Glen Burnie High School in AACPS. The schools in Odenton and Gambrills don't need a million magnet programs to bring W cluster school kids into their schools to only achieve average rankings. That's the reality of every school in eastern and upper MoCo. If the schools in eastern MoCo had the rankings of Crofton, Odenton, and Gambrills schools, the price gap between homes in Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac and Takoma Park/Silver Spring/non-BCC/WJ Einstein wouldn't be anywhere near as large as it currently is.[/quote]

This thread is, for better or worse, about prestige. If you think that Great Schools rankings of public schools tell you anything about prestige, you are hilariously out of touch.[/quote]

So what exactly is so special about Olney, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Gaithersburg, and Fort Washington that Odenton can't be placed in the same tier as them? You literally live in the cheapest, dumpiest parts of Montgomery County bordered by the dumpiest parts of PG County. Nearly everyone in Odenton could afford to live in any of these areas if they wanted to, but they purposely choose to live further out to avoid them. If anything, it does a disservice to Odenton to be lumped in with areas that are one regional program model implementation away from becoming some of the very worst schools in the entire state.

When you rank these towns by percentage of $1M+ homes sold over the last year as a total percentage of all homes, you see Odenton blows the vast majority of these places out of the water too:

Davidsonville: 47% (47 homes)
Kensington: 33.5% (73 homes)
Takoma Park: 24.2% (47 homes)
Severna Park: 20% (70 homes)
North Bethesda: 19.9% (170 homes)
Annapolis: 18.2% (296 homes)
Rockville: 16% (344 homes)
[b]Odenton: 14.3% (91 homes)[/b]
Arnold: 12.9% (50 homes)
Gaithersburg: 8% (87 homes)
Olney: 7.16% (19 homes)
Gambrills: 6.9% (12 homes)
Silver Spring: 3.3% (90 homes)
Fort Washington: 0.007% (4 homes)
Crofton: 0.003% (1 home)[/quote]

When did any PP say where they live?[/quote]

The point is, Odenton was placed in the same tier as Fort Washington, Olney, Takoma Park, and Gaithersburg. Nobody ever said it's Bethesda and Potomac, yet people were still like "oDenTon lOl?!" If anything, Odenton belongs in a slightly higher tier than these areas based off home prices, schools, etc[/quote]

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