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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP
If you want actual data on the schools you are considering here are two resources:

Schools at a glance reports are available here:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/glance/

Detailed report on SAT scores and participation rate broken down by high school and also by various groups within each school is available here.  It is a long report but worth paying attention to some of the tables, notably the appendix starting page 13:

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf[/quote]

I remember a discussion about this topic a few months back. Here was the gist of it.

[quote]The PP's intent was to look past simple averages that GS uses which serve only to identify which high-schools draw a higher percentage of rich kids., and provide a better, refined analysis that looks at the granular data.

When you isolate by cohort which is proxy a for socioeconomic status there is not much of a disparity between the performance of kids of the same backgrounds across these schools.

For example, when you compare average SAT scores for MCPS schools for a larger demographic common to all these schools the great schools narrative begins to fall apart and it becomes clear they're not all that different.

Blair 1326 
B-CC 1291
Walter Johnson 1275 
Wooton 1262 
Churchill 1257 
Wheaton 1173 
Einstein 1148

The data is for the largest cohort common to the aforementioned schools on page 16. 
https://bit.ly/2x3tS5X
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That list isn't quite honest, The actually ratios of those demographics matter. There simply aren't as many middle class white kids at a school like blair and many of those are magnet kids for other districts. Where BCC is almost all of these types of kids so the stat means a little more. Blair's scores as a whole even counting the mag kids are much much lower. [/quote]

I don't have a dog in the race, but those numbers are accurate according to the county.  Further, believe the PP's point has merit.

When you isolate by cohort which is proxy a for socioeconomic status there is not much of a disparity between the performance of kids of the same backgrounds across these schools. [/quote][/quote]

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