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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did this get to school rating in a talk about MoCo.

First when you look at ratings in any state you have to remove all Private Schools and all Magnet schools. Only public schools should be considered. The diversity also has an affect.

It is hard to believe since I am an old fart but I graduated a Public School at the time that was rated number one in the United States. Straight up. We send kids to Harvard left and right and had multiple 1,600 SAT scores. BUT my town was 99 percent rich. I lived in a tiny pocket of smaller homes. My town was 86% Jewish and the majority of Parents very wealth and many Doctors, Scientists, PhDs. They could pay for unlimited tutoring, review courses. And everyone went to best College they got into as money no object. And my town school taxes were 100 percent funded by my town. We did not share with neighboring towns. So the rich parents had no problem at all paying much higher taxes.

My kids then went to another great set of schools. My old Public HS my kids went to was 97 percent white. Zero Imigrants basically, zero non-english speakers. Even in MoCo the English scores are an issue we did not have them.  We also paid teachers way more and go the best,  all teachers made above 100K and some like the principal made 450K a year in a HS. We got the best.

Considering MoCo pays squat to teachers, some students barely speak English and Rich towns are not allowed to take their share of property taxes and pour it into their own HS it is amazing Churchill and Whitman are so great     [/quote]

It went to test scores and schools almost immediately because people equate that to "Montgomery County is failing".  The truth is, Montgomery County housing prices are appreciating slower than northern VA but that does not mean it's failing.  Most counties in this country would love to be where MoCo is.  Yes it has challenges but prices are not in free-fall and will not be.  Most job creation is in Virginia since it's more business friendly but you can buy a nice house in a nice school district for hundreds of thousands less in Montgomery County when compared to Northern VA.  The schools on greatschools are based on state averages so it's not really apple-to-apple comparisons, you have to look at standardized scores like SAT's that everyone takes.[/quote]

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