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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]McKinley, give us a break. Lame AP and SAT results, not diverse, heavy on social promotion.  Not a complete bust but close.[/quote]

McKinley gets kids into MIT and JHU. I know a Dartmouth grad from there. Can't be that "lame".[/quote]

Only 22% of McKinley students have passed a single AP exam but sure they are sending lots of kids to MIT….[/quote]

So you are saying that McKinley is a school that supports their prepared students to pass AP exams.  20% of the school body is enough for a cohort of students and not just 1 or 2 extremely motivated kids teaching themselves despite the school.  I don’t think you need a place where everyone is passing AP exams to be an acceptable place for a smart kid to do well.  That 20% number tells me that McKinley has teachers skilled enough to meet the needs of the subset of higher performing students embedded within a more diverse student body.  [/quote]
I agree. And also, FWIW, for practical purposes the cohort of students passing AP exams at McKinley is more like 35% of the student body, not 20%.

The PPs are using 22% because the most recent DCPS data show 44% of all students enrolled at McKinley taking an AP, and 50% of the students who take at least one AP passing at least one AP. But (as at most high schools) very few freshmen take any APs. Thus 22% is accurate but misleading. Take the freshman class out of the denominator and the numbers become more indicative of the size of the higher-performing cohort within the student body. [/quote]

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