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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would a Latin compare to a suburban middle and high school cluster in let’s say a Rockville? Or heck any suburb anywhere in the US where you here the infamous “oh great schools there”

Is Latin good based on DC metrics or actual USA metrics?

Who else uses PARCC to compare? How’s their college graduation rate? Getting into college is one thing, finishing it is another.

Not an anti-Latin poster. Hope our kids get in there. But I think these are the questions the poster wants. [/quote]

[b]Latin is good on actual USA metrics. [/b]

The suburban experience is very different from the city one— and for some, there are actual cons to moving to the suburbs. You need to know your own self and family to know whether staying in the city or moving to the suburbs is the better choice. [/quote]

Ok … I have no dog in this fight, but this is just not accurate. Latin’s test scores are BAD.

To give you an idea, if you look at the US News list of best high schools (one of the only “USA metrics” we have), Latin is ranked #11,048 in National Rankings. BASIS is ranked #250. Whitman in Bethesda is #147. Yorktown in Arlington is #345.

People are allowed to like Latin. But don’t lie about the academics. [/quote]

This is a little old, but even in DC the high school is ranked #14

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia/rankings

Top 5 -: Walls, Banneker, BASIS, McKinley, Wilson (nowJR). This seems right to me, btw, and I would very happily send my kid to any of these five.

Latin is a unicorn bc UMC families do seem really happy there but it's not a particularly strong school, academically, in terms of offerings and test scores.[/quote]

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