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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on 2023/2024 from Montgomerypublicschools.org

Student populations:

Grades 9-12
MCPS - 52227
Private - 9109
% at Private - 17.4%

Grades 1-8
MCPS - 93158
Private - 15681
% at Private - 16.8

What this demonstrates is that a little less than 1 in 5 students are not in the “excellent “ public schools.

I’m just guessing, but I think it’s reasonable that the percentage of students at private schools from the areas where the best MCPS schools are is higher than 17%.

So a very large number of people in the more affluent areas have arrived at the conclusion that they would rather pay than attend these top public schools.[/quote]

Without a breakdown by school attendance zone and religious vs independent privates you really cannot draw any useful conclusion from these stats.[/quote]

Nonsense.

You can conclude that 17% of the high school students are in private schools.

You can bet the MCPS people are well aware of this.

From this, using your own common sense and experience, you can make some educated guesses. I, for example, would believe that the percentage of of high schoolers at private schools is greater in Bethesda and Potomac than it is in Montgomery Village or Derwood.

The MCPS doesn’t differentiate between religious and secular privates. To them Prep and Landon are the same thing as I suspect they are to most.

This data doesn’t shed any light on the question of why people in the sending areas of the “best” free public high schools pay to send their kids to private ones. But it certainly shows there are a whole lot of them that do this. (9,000 of them or enough to fill six additional high schools with 1500 students each).

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