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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s only “great” as compared to the other DCPS high schools.  And with a cherry-picked cohort of on-grade, motivated kids it should be the best HS in DC. But, it would really only be considered a normal, average school in most upper middle class suburbs.  [/quote]

DCPS for whatever reason has decided that their application schools will be "better" than comprehensive schools, but not even close to the magnet programs in the area.

If you look at TJ, it of course pulls the best-and-brightest, but also provides the best facilities/resources of any public school in NoVa and offers courses and activities that none of the NoVA publich HSs come close to matching.  Walls arguably has some of the worst facilities, or more accurately no facilities.

That said, Walls is also an outlier for the area.  I am not aware of any non-STEM magnet schools in our area.  Walls definitely offers STEM classes, but it is not the reason for its existence like TJ, Blair Magnet, Poolesville Magnet, etc.

I know Walls had a very progressive reason for its existence when it was founded.  It was supposed to incorporate experiential learning as core to the process...i.e., we are learning about US Government, let's go to the US Capitol right now and see Congress in action...it was supposed to be a School Without Walls.  It is now a very traditional school.[/quote]

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