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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TJ fans love to claim they are number 1. It is worth pointing out that these Blair magnet kids 12/100 of them were Intel award winners and about 30/100 National Merit Semifinist.  However, they never are counted in the number 1 or top 500 schools because unlike every other magnet school (TJ, Stuyvesant etc) they are not in a whole school magnet but instead liberal MCPS has these kids in a low SES school to try to pull up the numbers of the school.[/quote]

The High Schools With The Highest SAT/ACT Scores In The Nation

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Annandale, Va.

TJHSST was established in 1985 as a result of a partnership between businesses and schools created to improve STEM education. With an average SAT score of 2220, TJHSST students go on to such prestigious schools like University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Yale, just to name a few.

2. The Harker School in San Jose, Calif.

This private prep school is home to students from kindergarten to senior year of high school. Students at Harker typically have a GPA range between 3.6 and 3.9 and an average SAT score of 2210.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/schools-highest-sat-scores_n_4654077.html[/quote]

I bet the 100 kids in the Blair Magnet program have a higher or equal average SAT score.  This sort of screaming how TJ is number one is gross, especially when no other school in FCPS even made the top 500.  Maryland schools are better than Virginia.[/quote]

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