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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP the silver spring schools are rubbish. please don't move there because you feel poor compared to some families in Bethesda.

We were not rich and our kids did fine at Whitman. Go for the academically strongest place you can find. Whitman, BCC, Churchill.  The second 2 of these will be more diverse, if that matters to you.[/quote]

How can you know that the SS schools are rubbish?  I don't have a dog in this fight, but am considering a MoCo move, and I had the impression that Blair, at least (which is TKPK not SS, I guess) had offerings and outcomes as good as the W/BCC schools.    [/quote]

DP.  Here is the Blair sheet, see what you think.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf[/quote]

Blair is really silver spring and its outcomes are propped up by the magnet and cap programs. The rest of the school is like Eastern middle (zoned for Blair) but with older kids doing older things. The reason those programs were put there is Blair was the poorest most diverse school in MoCo at the time. It was and is a carrot to get white kids ehemmm good students to self integrate in an attempt to stave off middle class (white) flight that was crippling DC and in the eastern inner suburbs at the time. There are other schools that need it more now that proximity has stabilized TP and DTSS prices for lower income white collar, no family money types priced out of better areas. 
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Some people might think that, but the evidence suggests otherwise. A few years back, the county accidentally leaked the average SAT scores by high school arranged by demographic group. It turned out my kid’s demographic, which is the largest common demographic between Blair and the W’s, was 1326/1600, which was higher at Blair than any other MCPS HS. Some might suggest it was the magnets, but since they’re 90% Asian, that’s not the case. It turns out that these assumptions some people make aren’t based on facts, and it turns out that if you treat demographics as a proxy for SES, the same kid ends up doing more or less the same (and slightly better at Blair than) at any of these schools.

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Oh, I remember that! It was so eye-opening to realize things aren't always as they seem. The info is on page 8 at this link.  https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf
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