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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Frankly, I do not give a rat's ass about the ranking.  Does my kid have a good shot of getting stellar grades, great SAT and AP scores, learning the material, filling content gaps, having excellent EC activities at the end of 4 years?  Is he willing to work hard and not depend on MCPS to spoon feed him?  Am I willing to support him? Why would I care what the school rating of  any other MCPS school is?  Why do I care where Joe Shmoe goes?  My student is a rising 9th grader in PHS SMACS program - so should he take it easy because by being in PHS he will automagically succeed?

[b]None of the  public and private schools in DMV is of the same caliber as Stuyvesant[/b].  We should try and concentrate on what is important. [/quote]
Blair SMACS puts Stuyvesant to shame [/quote]

I don't get all the Blair SMACS boosters on this forum ... It's a great program, but you all act like it's God gift to man.[/quote]

The SAT avg for Blair SMACS is around 1530. This is just an average. They consistently win national awards and have students on math and physics olympiads. Blair is the real deal.[/quote]

Yes, it's a great program, but you all act like there's nothing equivalent to it in the WMA. That's just not true. Poolesville and TJ are both equivalent on every metric. [/quote]

It's also great ONLY if your kid is in the SMACS program. The non-SMAC is nothing to really rave about. I think there are many other schools in MCPS that have better scores in multiple metrics than the Blair non-SMAC. [/quote]

Actually that's false. Non-magnet students have access to many magnet level classes. Also as has been shown here the average SAT at Blair for one of the larger cohorts even excluding magnet students was 1296 and surpassed that of the same group at any W.[/quote]

I remember that post. It used the demographic data from this PDF
https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Then took the Blair magnet average SAT which was something like 1530 and extrapolated the average score minus the out of boundary magnet students in that cohort. There was something like 40% of the 80 out of boundary magnet students in the original average belonged to the cohort that had 1326. This accounted for a 30 point boost to their average but it can also be argued that the only reason the magnet kids do so well is because it's a great school.

It was brilliant how this shutdown the Blair haters who attribute everything to a few dozen magnet students who are bussed in.

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I would be interested in that post.  The avg score at Blair was 1142 and if you take out the magnet kids, the avg score is 1053 according to my calculation.  Lets say even half the kids are in-bound, then the avg SAT score would be around 1100.[/quote]

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