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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are house hunting and hoping to buy in Vienna, feeding into Madison High, but even with a healthy budget of $850k-$900k, none of the homes we are seeing, can we envision as our forever home.  So, I have questions about Marshall High School.  One person I talked to described it as 'very diverse' and to him that wasn't a good thing. someone else said its 'a lot of military families'.   We think diversity is great for our kids, but where we live now, we are the minority, and to be honest, we really don't like it.  So, some diversity is great, but not so much we feel like the minority.  We are white and Jewish.  Will our kids be the only Jewish kids in their classes?  Will we like communities feeding into Marshall High?  Will we fit in?  Thanks for any opinions.  [/quote]

Be patient and you'll find something decent in Vienna zoned for Madison. The spring market is just starting up now.

No knock on Marshall but it is an IB school, so make absolutely sure that is what you want before you consider it as an alternative. We moved out of an IB district, after we realized it did not also offer AP classes and that less than 25% of the students were getting IB diplomas.[/quote]

25% getting the IB diploma is outstanding.  It is very rigorous.  To compare with an AP school, what percent are doing 8 APs?[/quote]

Don't know, but the college readiness statistics for the top AP schools in FCPS like Madison are much higher than those for any of the IB schools, so they must be taking and passing more AP exams.  You can tout how rigorous IB is, but something is wrong if over 75% of the kids at an IB school graduate without an IB diploma. At some IB schools, it's more like 95%. [/quote]

The IB basher is confusing the % that attempt the diploma that get the diploma vs the % of students in the school who get the IB diploma.

95%?  You are delusional.  How about a public school example.[/quote][/quote]

I'm not confusing anything. If only 10 students in a graduating class of 100 at an IB school attempt an IB diploma, and 7 are successful, I think it's more relevant that 93% of the graduates left empty-handed than that 70% of the handful seeking an IB diploma were successful.

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You must be Donald Trump with your own version of reality.

25% attempting the diploma is excellent.  It is equivalent to AP students taking several AP courses.  What percentage do that?

It is delusional to expect 95% of a public school population to pursue the full IB diploma.[/quote]

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