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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve combed through thousands of records to find the top high schools in the country by test scores in a massive study. The results are in.

The two best high schools in America by test scores only are Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, which was the top-scoring high school for the SATs, and Davidson Academy in Reno, Nevada, which was the top-scoring high school for the ACTs. The two high schools in America that should still work on their test scores are the Second Start School in Concord, New Hampshire, which had the country’s lowest average SAT score, and the Variety School in Las Vegas, Nevada, which had the country’s lowest average ACT score.

[b]Rank	               School	Location	    Average SAT Score[/b]

1	Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology	Alexandria, Virginia	1515 (originally 2198/2400)

2	Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Technologies	Edison, New Jersey	1502

3	High Technology High School	Lincroft, New Jersey	1500

4	Felicity-Franklin High School	Felicity, Ohio	1480 (originally 2120/2400)

5	Biotechnology High School	Freehold Township, New Jersey	1477

6	Bergen County Academies	Hackensack, New Jersey	1470

7	Stuyvesant High School	New York City, New York	1466 (originally 2096/2400)

8	Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science	Denton, Texas	1465

9	Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science	Worcester, Massachusetts	1457

10	Jasper High School	Plano, Texas	1446

https://brainly.com/insights/best-worst-public-high-schools-us-by-sat-act-scores[/quote]

If TJ was so great hy is TJ's SAT average so much lower than the MCPS STEM magnets?[/quote]

Along comes the MCPS moron as usual.

So where is Poolesville on this list?  And what do you think the TJ average would have been if it were as small as the Blair magnet?

In any event MCPS doesn’t report SAT scores externally any longer and TJ #s will plummet with the admissions change so it will all be moot soon. [/quote]

The Blair manget average SAT is around 20-30 points higher than TJ.  The info is available online via google.[/quote]

The magnet had 95 kids sit for the SAT an got an average of 1531.  TJ has 500 kids taking the test and averaged 1527.  If you took TJs top 95, you would be at about 1570.[/quote]

And if you took the top 500 from Moco you'd also have closer to 1600. Seriously, TJ is just a poornan's Blair. It [b]looses [/b]on every front. [/quote]

That is classic MoCo.  Don't you have a consultant's report about MoCo catching up to Fairfax you could go read for a day or two? [/quote]

Sorry was watching a rerun of TJ losing to Blair (again) on It's Academic. :D[/quote]

It’s Academic is a child’s play. How many times did Blair win the national quizbowl tournaments in the last several years while TJ was dominating?[/quote]

In every category, it seems to outperform TJ. In terms of NMSF, in terms of Intel scholars, Math and Physics Olympiad members. You name it. TJ like AAP is just too watered down to compete. [/quote]

Granted Blair does very well for a small program, but it seems like MCPS could stand to have more programs like that than anything.  Even TJ seems too restrictive these days. People would probably be better off if they offered courses like this at any home school.[/quote]

Just about every HS in MCPS hosts some specialty program. Blair hosts 2 even. I think it's just a different way to do things. For example, there's global ecology at Poolesville or Biomedical Engineering program at Wheaton, the Commuicatin Arts program at Blair, or even the rigorous IB at RM.[/quote]
Well you will find better resources in Montgomery County. That’s where the old money is[/quote]

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