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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCC parents look at school performance scores the same way every other parent looks at them. The same focus on school performance that drives people to move to schools in the west and up county rather than the DCC plays out within the DCC too.

Blair ranks higher than Einstein but if you moved the magnet into Einstein then Einstein would rank higher than Blair. Even though non-magnet Blair kids aren't doing any better than Einstein kids, Blair families would revolt if they were rezoned into Einstein or Wheaton. Einstein scores much higher than Kennedy. Einstein families would revolt if they were rezoned into Kennedy.[/quote]

We are zoned for Einstein but it's some years away. We bought our home before we were even pregnant. At that time, I started asking questions about the schools, with -most interest in area pre-schools and elementary. As years passed and we had the kids and are now in elementary, I'm definitely investigating middle more, and to some extent high school. If we found out we were being rezoned to Wheaton or Kennedy I probably would freak out given I have done no research on those schools, don't have babysitters from those schools, friends with kids in those schools, neighbors and friends who are starting to report out direct experience. So in that sense yes.

Ultimately I'm not obsessed with scores. I want my kids to have a cohort of kids who push and encourage them. We definitely have that in elementary school. All signs point to that in middle and high. So if that changed I would want to ensure the same thing - what areas are rezoned, what do the boundaries look like, etc.[/quote]

I agree with you, and anyone who is interested can also see from the data that MCPS schools outside of minor demographic differences are remarkably the same.[/quote]

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