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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't care about commute, I'd choose Olney in a heartbeat. Walter Johnson neighborhoods are blah and have no sense of community in my opinion.

However, I'm surprised to see how low Sherwood's SAT scores. They don't even break 1600. What's up with that?

Data source: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/pdf/SATBOEMemo10614.pdf[/quote]

lack of asian kids to drive up the numbers. [/quote]

Well, since Asian kids score a whopping 20 points better out of 2400 in MoCo on the SAT I doubt that's the issue.  Sherwood is only 54% white, and there are a lot more middle/lower middle class families in the area than in places like Bethesda and Potomac.  I'd also guess that the SES of the Black and Hispanic families are on average significantly lower when compared to Bethesda/Potomac as well.  SAT scores go up w/ SES so that's probably the largest difference.

IMO, kids from families with similar parental education and income levels will have similar scores at either school.  The schools don't make the kids, the kids make the school.  I feel like Sherwood is at a good place; it doesn't have a lot of issues associated either with high poverty or affluence.[/quote]

Ever FARMs at Sherwood is  about 26%.  By comparison, Whitman's is less than 5%.  So while it's more "highly impacted," it's still lower than QO, which is about 36% and much lower than schools in the NEC or DCC.  Wheaton, for example, is at 78%.

So it's somewhere in the middle.

I'd rather have that than the extremes.  For now, it's fine for us.  If it spirals downward, it's time to move on.  Highly impacted schools are filled with overworked teachers and administrators who can't manage discipline.  So both academics and safety become issues.[/quote]

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