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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]is Poolesville like maryland's ashburn?[/quote]

No, they have a magnet program but their regular folk aren't as bad as RM and Blair.  [/quote]
Poolesville is in the sticks, and it has 36% Asian American students. That's why their scores are high.

Any wealthy school or school with a high % of Asian American population will have high test scores. I know people don't like to hear that, but it's true.

Same thing plays out in CA where I'm originally from. There are HS that have a 40% FARMs rate, but high Asian American population, and their scores are very high. [/quote]

What percent of the students at Poolesville are magnet students? What percent of the students at Blair & RM are in the magnet. Let’s look at socio economic and racial data of each of those three schools. [/quote]
I don't know about Poolesville, but RMIB is about 125 per grade, and about 25 from inbound RM cluster.  Blair is about 100.

You can look up "at a glance" for those schools, as well as the feeder MS to get a sense of the demographics of the HS based on the MS.[/quote]

My assumption is a greater percentage of Poolesville students are in a magnet program vs the other two schools, hence the higher performance and rating.[/quote]

They call it a whole school magnet but I think about 3/4 of the school may be test-in magnet students and the quarter are local students who part of a program that provides the opportunity to do a cool independent research project. I could be wrong on the numbers but the PP is correct that a much greater percentage of the school is in a magnet.[/quote]

According to the Metis report, Poolesville has the following numbers of magnet seats:

Math, Science, Computer Science (magnet) 50 /grade
Humanities (magnet) 50 /grade 
Global Ecology (magnet) 50 /grade

So that would come to 600 magnet students across all four grades. The school has 1300 students altogether.[/quote]
that would be 150 students per grade in a magnet, so half the grade is in a magnet program.  Are all the programs ^ test in or are some more like lottery?[/quote]

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