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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you seen the latest US News & World Report national rankings?

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-rankings

Here's how they scored the top schools around our area:

TJ comes in #4; Whitman #61 and Wooton #65, George Mason #76 Poolesville #83 James Madison #93 Langley #96

Also interesting is that two BASIS schools came in ranked #2 and #5.[/quote]

:) You will never see RMIB and Blair magnet on these national rankings b/c they use "school within a school" model (only 100 kids per grade) vs "whole school magnet" model (e.g., TJ). So when you combine 100 magnet kids with 400-500 non-magnet kids, and rank it at the school level, it will NOT show the true picture of magnet kids. For example, this year RM had 34 NMSF, how many are from IB program? All of them (34 out of 100) - so if you say 34 out of over 500 kids (school level), it's not that impressive but if you say 34 out of 100 (program level), I think that's pretty impressive. [/quote]

Um, yeah, well there are lots of schools where if you only trot out the top performers, they look awesome...  :roll:[/quote]

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