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If you want actual data on the schools you are considering here are two resources:

Schools at a glance reports are available here:
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/glance/

Detailed report on SAT scores and participation rate broken down by high school and also by various groups within each school is available here.  It is a long report but worth paying attention to some of the tables, notably the appendix starting page 13:

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf[/quote]

I remember a discussion about this topic a few months back. Here was the gist of it.

[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 by cohort 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 
B-CC 1291
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 16. 
https://bit.ly/2x3tS5X
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That list isn't quite honest, The actually ratios of those demographics matter. There simply aren't as many middle class white kids at a school like blair and [b]many of those are magnet kids for other districts[/b]. Where BCC is almost all of these types of kids so the stat means a little more. Blair's scores as a whole even counting the mag kids are much much lower. [/quote]

This was previously covered too, and it was shown there were roughly only 32 out of boundary magnet students in that cohort.

[quote]Here’s a ballpark attempt to eliminate the out of boundary magnet scores from Blair’s SAT average for the largest common cohort.

1526 Blair Magnet SAT average 
1326 Blair SAT average score for common cohort 
250 total number of kids from cohort that took SAT 
32 number of out of boundary magnet kids from cohort that took the SAT 
where “x” is Blair’s in boundary SAT average for largest common cohort

(250 - 32) / 250 = 87% non-magnet cohort total 
13% magnet % of cohort total

0.85x + 0.13 * 1526 = 1326 
0.87x + 198 = 1326 
0.9x = 1326 – 198 
x = (1326 – 198) / 0.87 = 1296 SAT average without

[b]Blair’s SAT average for the largest cohort common to those schools even without magnet scores is still respectable, [/b]but mostly aside the point that these schools are pretty much the same when looking at similar cohorts.[/quote][/quote]
Agree.  The teachers and students in my magnet child's non magnet honors and AP classes has been great.
If you look at page 19 on the report you see a table which evaluates the number and percentage of students who meet college readiness benchmarks wrt SAT scores.  For MCPS the % of FARMs students who took the SAT test and met the benchmark was 32%.
The schools that have more than 50 FARMs students taking the SAT are:
Blair, Blake, Clarksburg, Einstein, Gaithersburg, Kennedy, Richard Montgomery, Northwest, Northwood, PaintBranch, Springbrook and Wheaton.
Of these only Blair, Clarksburg, Richard Montgomery, Northwest and Paintbranch showed this group of students exceeding the average (ie more than 32% meeting the college readiness benchmark).  I remember from another thread that Blair, Clarksburg and Richard Montgomery also had this same group doing well wrt AP scores.  
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