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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"In mcps, each high school has a school profile that you can access and it shows weighted grade distribution among graduating seniors. Last year I checked ours (Churchill) and was shocked at how many students have over 4.5 - I want to say over 1/4 of the grade. So, most of them probably have 4.0 or close to it unweighted."

Could you please share the link to this info?[/quote]

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/r-w/churchillhs/uploadedfiles/careercenter/class20of20202020final20profile.pdf

29% of the graduating class had a 4.51 or higher. [/quote]

Yet the SAT average is only 1317 -- Something's not adding up[/quote]

People on this board have extremely skewed views of SAT scores & think anything below 1500 isn't very good. A score of 1317 is about the 88th percentile nationally...so if the average at Churchill is 1317, that's very good.  Assuming the average is about the median, that means the median (50th percentile) for Churchill is about the same as the 88th percentile nationally- which is fantastic.

Now assume the 29th% that are getting a 4.51 percent are getting scores that closer to the 70th/75th percentile scores for Churchill (top 29th would suggest this)...that could very well be a 1450 or 1500 or higher...(the equivalent of the 96th or 98th percentiles for the nation)...

This is not to say that the 4.51 is not inflated somehow...just the scores are not necessarily out of line.[/quote]

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