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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The largest academic decline has been in the east and poorer areas of up county. For all the hyping that goes on, academically Einstein, Northwood, Blair, Kennedy, and Wheaton have plunged. Out of the good schools, Whitman has lost its top academic spot consistently to Churchill. Wootton and Poolesville for the several years. Whitman's desirability and reputation are still better but score wise it is lower. Seneca Valley, and Magruder have dropped. Northwest has not dropped, its scores are actually pretty good and equal to QO but it has a bad reputation in comparison to QO.

RM, Wootton and Poolesville are really the only example of schools that are better today than they were 20 years ago. [/quote]

It's truly amazing how much overlap there is between DCUM's perception of school quality, on the one hand, and the demographic makeup of the school's student body, on the other. Astonishing. What could the explanation for that possibly be?[/quote]

Honestly, I’m not white and I don’t care what the demographic makeup of my kids’ school is.  I do, however, look at the stats.  When my kids’ HS is showing that less than 50% of the graduates are ready for college, it makes me stop and think.[/quote]

That’s statistic doesn’t mean what you think it means. You’re talking about the “percentage of students meeting University of Maryland entrance requirements” on the Schools at a Glance reports, right? Because there’s nowhere else statistics on “readiness for college” are published.

That statistic refers to students having taken and passed a very specific set of courses, e.g. a certain number of years of English and foreign language, certain math, etc. Even at Whitman, which we can all agree is one of the richest schools with the most students graduating and going to college, that statistic is 57%. https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04427.pdf

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