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So OP should want to send her children to a school where only 35% of those who were deemed by the school to be ready for AP instruction ([b]already a very small minority of the school population[/b]) can pass the national exam?  Yet it is a "good" school? Even Wheaton passes 61% vs. Kennedy's 36%.  Looking only at FARMS students, 65% at Blair pass one exam, while at Kennedy 45% pass an exam.  [/quote]

In 2016-17 (the most recent year of available data), 339 graduates took an AP (or IB) test. There were 328 students in grade 12 in 2016-2017. So that's 103%. Clearly something is going on with these numbers. But we can compare it to the number of students in grade 12 in 2016-2017, which is 412, or 82% - not typically a percentage that people would consider "a very small minority of the school population".

Also, the number reported is not percentage of students who took the AP test and got at least a 3. It's percentage of graduates. So, 28% of Kennedy graduates took an AP test and scored at least a 3. That's 1 in 4, which certainly suggests that the number of academically-minded kids at Kennedy HS is plenty big enough for an academically-minded kid to find a cohort.

Comparable numbers for Blair and Wheaton are 101%/94%/53% and 107%/88%/42%.[/quote]

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