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[quote=Anonymous][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:

[b]Blair 1326
Walter Johnson 1275
Wootton 1262
Churchill 1257[/b]

ttps://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

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Thanks for clearing this up and providing a reliable citation![/quote]

Sorry.  You folks are easliy fooled, aren't you.  Both are accurate.  The poster just misread the data.  These are two types of documents using very different calculations.  Let's use everyone's favorite school (Blair) as an example).

Table B1a. Number of Advanced Placement Exams Taken by MCPS Students and Number and Percentage of Advanced Placement Exam Scores of 3 or Higher in 2018 and 2019 by High School and Race/Ethnicity
2018 86.9%
2019 87.1%
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2019/191219%20HS%20Princ_2019_AP_IB_Exams.dh.pdf

% of Graduates Scoring 3 or Higher on AP Test or Scoring 4 or Higher on IB Test
2019–2020 52.5%
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf
2020-2021 56.5%
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

The difference is the first set of numbers is calculated by the number of exams taken divided by the number of exams 3 or more (passing).  The second set of numbers is calculated most likely by student (unless you believe a HS dropped 30% in a single year?).

In other words, MCPS boosted the numbers in Table B1a by showing the number of exams taken and passed (regardless of the number of students taking AP's).  As we all know, it's common that a single student takes more than one AP exam.  However, when you look at how many students took AP exams versus not at all, that is the better indication of academic success at a High School.  That's what the 50'ish% show.

Now, remove the magnet kids from Blair (taking multiple AP exams), and I think you'll get a better picture of the school's non-magnet academic environment overall.[/quote]

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