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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The funny thing is that RHS and RM have always been rivals.  RHS has always had a better reputation— hence the purpose of the magnet program.[/quote]
RMHS *used* to be not so great.  The reputation has changed, and yes, part of it was the IB program which draws upper/middle income people to the cluster.

RHS rating = 5; college readiness 6
RMHS rating = 7 college readiness 8

Wood MS rating  = 7
JW MS rating = 8

Yes IB magnet at RM raises the test scores, but saying that without IB magnet at RM the school would be only so so is like saying that the W schools would be so so if there were less wealthy people. The school is what it is *because* of the programs and students who attend that school, and that does include the magnet kids.[/quote]
It's also worth pointing out that the demographics of RM have changed a lot since the days when the magnet program was first put there. You've had Fallsgrove, King Farm (most of which is zoned for RM) and Park Potomac built since then, and that's all fairly wealthy housing that feeds into the cluster. Rockville, HS, to my knowledge, hasn't had a similar development boom in the cluster over the last few decades.[/quote]

It's actually much more than that built since 1987:

Falls Grove
King Farm (lower half)
Rose Hill/Rose Hill Farms
Park Potomac
Tower Oaks

Most of those areas are high SES, with very expensive homes in many of the neighborhoods going to the $1m level or more. Then there are other high-SES neighborhoods that were moved into RM at the onset of the magnet program:

Horizon Hill
Falls Ridge
Potomac Woods
Falls Orchard
Montgomery Square (northern section)

These neighborhoods are pretty much 100% single-family homes build in the 1960s-1980s currently priced between $600k and $900k.

West End and near Town Center have had McMansionization of tear-downs and major renovations putting values above $1m now, too. All of this has caused desirability to increase a lot for other neighborhoods in the district, and so College Gardens has also increased in value and SES.

In other words, the RM district is very different now than it was in 1987.
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