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Totally off topic, but as someone from the Bay Area, when I first moved here and saw that sign on the 270 fwy, I chuckled.

Back to the topic at hand.. I've heard good things about Poolesville HS. [b]Always ranked really high in MD and nationally.[/b]  I thought about moving there for the school, but it's a bit too rural for me.[/quote]

Yes, that's what happens when half of the student body is magnet students who got admitted due to high standardized test scores.

For comparison, John Poole MS is 69% white, and 13% of students qualify for FARMs.[/quote]
 :roll: get over it.  There are many schools that are mostly white all over this country that don't do as well as Poolesville.  And yes, the school is ranked highly because there are a lot of smart students there.  Duh.

-non Poolesville parent[/quote]

Get over what?

Also: yes, as you say, Poolesville HS is ranked highly because when half of the students at a school, are there because of their high test scores, then that school will have high average school test scores. It would be weird if it didn't.[/quote]

Those magnet kids are still all upcounty kids, and it’s all upcounty academic talent. [b]“Half the school population” is a GROSS over-exaggeration.[/b] It’s more like 1/4, [i]if that[/i]. Plenty of other schools have magnets too, and they don’t rank like Poolesville. B-CC has an IB program and yet it still ranks lower despite it being a much wealthier school. John Poole Middle has the same rating as Westland despite having more students receiving FARMS and similar percentages of Hispanic/Black students. Just take the L. [/quote]

it's not a gross exaggeration. At John Poole MS, in September 2019, there were 138 6th graders, 115 7th graders, and 137 8th graders. At Poolesville HS, there were 331 9th graders, 318 10th graders, 282 11th graders, and 274 12th graders. Why are the grade levels so much bigger at Poolesville HS than at John Poole MS? Because of the magnet kids.

Also, yes, all of the magnet kids at Poolesville HS are from the parts of the county that go to the Poolesville HS magnet program (including the county-wide eligibility for the global ecology program), but the point is that they don't live in the Poolesville HS service area.

Nobody has compared John Poole MS to Westland MS, so I don't know why this comparison between GS ratings (of all things) keeps getting brought up.

None of this is insulting Poolesville or the MCPS schools for the kids who live in the Poolesville service area. It's just the data.

(Speaking of data, B-CC does not have a magnet program.)[/quote]

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