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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. “Half the school population” is a GROSS over-exaggeration. 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]
Sorry, but you are coming across as biased against Poolesville, as if the only reason Poolesville is good is because it's mostly white and doesn't have high FARMs rate, and because of its magnet program.

My point is that there are many schools across the country that have similiar demographics to Poolesville but  they aren't ranked as high. And yes, it's ranked highly because there a lot of smart students there in the magnet. Duh.   It's like saying if it weren't for all the wealth at the W schools, those schools wouldn't be ranked as high.  The magnet program is part of the school. The students in the magnet program are part of the school. Hence, the school is ranked really high.  Also, unlike TJ, Poolesville is not an all magnet school.

The only reason we don't live up there is because it's too rural for my tastes, but the schools are really good, and if you don't  mind the rural feel, I would send my kids to Poolesville schools.[/quote]

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