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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another vote for Madison.   I think it's ranked the third or fourth best school in Virginia, and Marshall's not even in the top 15.  [/quote]

By what standards, reputation?

I think we all need to come back down to reality and review the test scores and academic offerings. The consensus is that Madison has a good sports program but Marshall offers many more academic programs.

In general Madison has been a "good" school for some time and Marshall just recently became "good" so there is a reputation hurdle.

In all honesty there isn't that much of a difference between Marshall, Madison, Oakton etc... and McLean (to some point).

If you want to go to a school that is the best in the area by a long shot, you would pick Langley and the test scores prove it's superiority. Langley get mostly 98s where as the other schools listed above get 90-95 with each school out scoring each other in one or two categories. What is interested is that Marshall seems to outscore in math but madison scores higher in english. One interesting fact is oakton scores poorly in math at 89 and followed by McLean at 91.

Of course the best school in the area is TJ which scores 100s across the board but that is obviously a school you must test into.

Below are the 2013 scores for each school

TJ
https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/report.do?division=29&schoolName=1348

Langley
https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/report.do?division=29&schoolName=1357

McLean
https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/report.do?division=29&schoolName=1397

Oakton 
https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/report.do?division=29&schoolName=1333

Marshall 
https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/report.do?division=29&schoolName=1392

Madison
https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard/report.do?division=29&schoolName=1368

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