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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS &gt; MCPS &gt; APS.

FCPS and MCPS enjoy economies of scale, but FCPS has a larger base of UMC families than MCPS and TJ, and FCPS students have access to a wider number of strong state universities.

And FCPS has a significantly higher percentage of hard-working Asian kids than APS, which tends to raise the bar generally.  It’s understood in Virginia that the high schools in APS are weaker than the middle schools in APS, which in turn are weaker than the elementary schools in APS. In other words, the advantages of a relatively affluent population diminish over time in APS because the school system is just not that rigorous.[/quote]
MCPS hands down. Academic competitions results show that.
TJ is great on paper and unfortunately is the only school worth mentioning in FCPS[/quote]

TJ takes the top kids from each school. MCPS doesn’t have a TJ so the kids stay at their base. Walt Whitman is the only high school ranked higher than Langley.[/quote]
Then TJ should have crushed all competitions and competitors, but it's not. TJ got their a$$ hand it to them almost every time.[/quote]

If you are talking about Richard Montgomery, they have the IB program. IB students at the school, have a “school within a school.” IB students have a very different experience than GE students. I would not send my kid to RM if they were not in the IB program.

TJ continues to be ranked the best public high school in the entire US. I have no interest in sending my kids to TJ. I am sure MCPS has strong students as well but there is no TJ in MCPS.[/quote]

Yes, but in every math and quiz bowl when they have faced even a lowly ranked high-farms school like Blair TJ has lost.[/quote]

^ Disingenuous poster alert.[/quote]

TJ can't even beat a single high FARMS MCPS school. Seriously they lost to 2 here.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eld4kAqUuCE[/youtube]

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How could an MCPS school with a Great Schools Rating of 5 defeat America's #1 High School? It shouldn't be possible! My guess is these systems people are using to rank these schools are very flawed and that test score averages don't equate to real opportunity.[/quote][/quote]

I may be mistaken but didn't McLean High School win the It's Academic competition this year.[/quote]
Yes, a FCPS school won that competition for the first time in like...2 decades, 4th or 5th times overall. Meanwhile, MCPS schools have have dominating and crushing this competition for like... forever [/quote]

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