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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes the 200 or so white kids in specialty classes at Blair do well but the list is clearly bunk as it left off Poolesville and Whitman which are better not to mention have more of the students who achievements that lists trumpets. What about the other 3000 kids at blair who don't do so well and score closer to their peers at Einstein? They don't matter?  You can always cherry pick a few smart kids in a school and go look how good that school is. But that stat only represents a tiny fraction of the student population where schools like WJ and BCC it is the total student body. See the difference  [/quote]

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