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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm a BASIS parent and I think it's wonderful that McKinley is another good STEM option and that it seems to be on more and more peoples radars.

Aren't more options a good thing? It's not like one school will have room for all the college bound  kids in the city. We need lots of good options. We should be rooting for McKinley.[/quote]

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