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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Excellent academics![/quote]

I looked at the SAT averages by the demographic cohort that was posted here a while back and although Wooton does okay it's hardly the top school at least for kids.It is definitely in the top 5 though.[/quote]

Raw SAT score means different things to different people and just because an average SAT score is higher does not necessarily translate into college readiness.  Ex. a school could have more 504 or Special Needs programs than another.

Lotus prep does a nice analysis of the best high schools in the greater Washington DC area, both private and public, ranked by SAT.  https://www.lotusprep.com/best-high-schools-dc/.  They weight 3 (meaningful) factors equally: Average SAT (math and critical reading), Average number of Presidential Scholar candidates, Average number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists.  Not sure why Poolesville wasn't counted, but it may have just been an oversight?  Only two schools were "outliers" (the others "clustered" within a statistically significant range); although it will be interesting to see if Blair drops in future years due to the "lottery system" impact.  Wootton was the lowest on this ranking (e.g. fewest National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, Presidential Scholar candidates, SAT average).
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Your data seems to be off, here's the summary and citation, but TLDR the largest common cohort to these schools had the following:

Blair 1326
Walter Johnson 1275
Wootton 1262
Churchill 1257

https://beastacademy.com/school/classroom/4/6/704/1

And yes the Blair magnet average was 1520+, but in this cohort only around 30 of the 200 kids were from the magnet.
 
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oops sorry - the actual citation was https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf
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