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The schools are very diverse which is a positive but the middle school is kinda rough.  There were a good amount of fights, two pregnancies in 8th grade last year, bullying etc... Not horrible but not a great middle school.

RM is average.  The IB program brings the level up a few notches but there is a good amount of lower SES kids and hispanics in the school.  They don't seem to have the gang issues that Rockville and Gaithersburg High has been seeing.  No major violence besides some fights.  Nice new school, starting to get overcrowded.  Already looking to add an addition but they are in a tight location.

Rose Hill is a good neighborhood also in walking distance to the town center.  We also really like some of the College Gardens neighborhoods.  They have sidewalks, more/better playgrounds, walking distance to a few stores/ice cream.  Most of the homes have garages.  Some places aren't true walking distance to the Town Center though but easy biking distance.  Rockville does have great biking paths.  [/quote]

What MS is not "rough" or not have any bullying?  So, there are some MS kids at JW that are having sex. I'm willing to bet that there are MSers in *every* MS that are having sex, and probably getting pregnant, but mommy is making it all go away before people talk.  JW is rated a 9.  Normally, I don't really put too much stock in school ratings, but this alone should tell you that it's not "rough".

There are 150 IB kids at RM out of over 2200.  Not sure less than 10% of the school population can make/break a HS.  You realize that JW/RM is made up of kids from College Gardens, Beall, RP, and Twinbrook  ESs, right?  Twinbrook is probably the weakest of the ESs, but it's also the smallest in terms of student size.  The rest of the ESs (again, much larger than Twinbrook) feed from middle/upper class areas.  In spite of the fact it has a much higher FARMS rate than the W schools, the test scores for the Hispanic/Black kids are pretty good. That tells me a lot of positives about that school.[/quote]

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