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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're in Takoma Park schools, do you wish you could send your kids to another MoCo or NW DC school instead?  Why or why not?  We are currently in TP and are interested in hearing people's experiences with the schools as our children aren't yet school-aged.  Do you have concerns about the quality of education your child is receiving and/or their safety? [/quote]

Not at all! The schools in Takoma Park are among the best the county has to offer if your children are bright and interested in STEM. This was summed up well a few weeks ago in another thread.

[quote]The PP's intent was to look past simple averages that GS uses which serve only to identify which high-schools draw a higher percentage of rich kids., and provide a better, refined analysis that looks at the granular data.

When you isolate for race which is proxy a for socioeconomic status there is not much of a disparity between the performance of kids of the same backgrounds across these schools.

For example, when you compare average SAT scores for MCPS schools for a larger demographic common to all these schools the great schools narrative begins to fall apart and it becomes clear they're not all that different.

Blair 1326 
Walter Johnson 1275 
Wooton 1262 
Churchill 1257 
Wheaton 1173 
Einstein 1148

The data is for the largest cohort common to the aforementioned schools on page 10. 
http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/shareda...c_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf
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This really clears things up for me. Thanks![/quote]

Those scores are meaningless. It is only for the white kids and most of those are magnet students shipped in from OOB. If you look at Blair’s overall score it is among the lowest in MoCo. Oh wait minority kids don’t count, sorry I forgot [/quote]

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