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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Howard County (for now) has a different socio-economic make-up than MoCo so you can't compare the schools.  They have far fewer English learners and kids who come to K unprepared.  That doesn't mean they provide a better education.  [/quote]

That's a good point.  The average SAT score in MoCo was 1651 last year and it was 1632 in Howard county.  If anything this suggests the education in MoCo is better, perhaps significantly.[/quote]

I don't think you can make that statement.  One school district might have a higher average SAT score because it *attracts* more high-performing students (i.e. MOCO has this hyped up reputation, so parents who are very involved in the education of their kids tend to flock there, and so there is a disproportionate number of top MD students in MOCO).

I really don't think you can use average scores to claim that the education is better.  Scores don't tell the entire story.  I would wager money that there are a large number of high-scoring students who would score the same on the SATs even if you moved them to an entirely different district, perhaps even an underperforming one.

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I don't know.  I don't think the vast majority of MoCo comes here with "high performing kids" because of the school system.  I and everybody I know came here because it was close(ish) to where we work. Interestingly enough, my wife and I both now work in Howard county and we're thinking of moving for a better commute, so we've done some research on the schools.  There are a LOT of poorer ESOL residents in MoCo, especially compared to Howard.  Howard is a more affluent county (5th most in the country by last account).  Not all of MoCo is like Bethesda and CC; most isn't actually.

Considering the demographics,  the disparity in scores between the two would suggest that MoCo does a better job of teaching its students than HoCo does.  Certainly it's hard to argue that Howard is doing a better job.  That being said, IMO they're both really good school systems.[/quote]

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