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I’m not PP, but I’m assuming that the person who brought up John Poole’s GS rating being comparable to Westland’s is trying to go against [b]the notion that Poolesville High School only has a high rating because of its magnets[/b] or because few Black/Hispanic/FARM recipient students go to schools in Poolesville.

Poolesville itself is a very affluent and educated area. They have a median income that isn’t too far off from Potomac’s and yet even John Poole has more Black and Hispanic students than Pyle and Cabin John. It’s true that the magnet students make up a large portion, but those magnets are regionalized to upcounty students only.

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This isn't a notion, it's just a fact. What you do with that fact is up to you.

For what it's worth, the "upcounty" students in the Poolesville HS magnet programs come from these clusters:

Clarksburg
Damascus
Gaithersburg
Magruder
Northwest
Poolesville
Quince Orchard
Seneca Valley
Watkins Mill

Also, the Poolesville Fair Access people have spent a lot of time and effort trying to dispel your idea that Poolesville is a very affluent and educated area: https://monocacymonocle.com/images/issues_2020/MM_2020-02-21.pdf[/quote]

I don’t know what your agenda is, I’m just going off the facts. Poolesville’s median household income is $180,524, and Bethesda’s is $164,142. Only 1.5% of people in Poolesville live in poverty, while 3% in Bethesda do. Those are the official numbers from the census. I don’t know why you think that people in Poolesville fighting to get their school replaced means they’re not wealthy and educated. Lots of schools in rich areas in large counties are old.

John Poole Middle School doesn’t rate any lower than Westland and hardly any lower than North Bethesda Middle School, and it has roughly the same amount of Hispanic/Black students as both of those middle schools. Kids in Poolesville will see far more Black and Hispanic kids in their life than kids who graduate from Churchill and Whitman will. It’s not some hill billy place with nothing but white people that people here pretend it is. The schools their magnet kids come from are other schools in upcounty that have far more Black/Hispanic kids and more low-income kids. They’re not taking kids from the richest and educated parts of the county to inflate their schools. They’re working with their own region of the county.

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