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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the poster to mention Banneker first in this thread. I’m sorry it moved the conversation away from MacArthur. 
My point was, the fact that BCC is at the end of first 500 on that rating (400 positions lower than Banneker though), it doesn’t convince me much that MacArthur is going to be worth than BCC. 
My criteria for schools are how well are they teaching kids who don’t have privilege to be taught by tutors after school, how many kids actually finish high school, and if there is a decent amount of electives to make high school experience interesting. That is all I need for my kid. [/quote]

Well my criteria is different.  My kid is high performing (does well in school, scores top 10% and higher on standardized tests) and I need a school with a critical high performing peer group with a curriculum that challenges him.

I’m tired of filling in the gaps and supplementing to get him challenged.

BCC tracks much more than MacArthur and has higher performing peer group.  I mean JR isn’t that great with the Deal kids and Hardy performs lower than Deal.[/quote]

Can you please provide more info on how MacArthur “tracks”?[/quote]

I’m the PP.   I don’t have details and don’t think there will be much tracking in 9th and 10th except math. My assumption is it’s going to be like JR.  Honors for all in 9th and 10th and then AP options in 11th and 12th although it’s AP for all with no academic criteria to take these classes.

That’s why the AP scores for JR is not good.  Around 50% kids only score 1 or 2.

The academic group for MacArthur is going to be weaker than JR because Hardy is weaker than Deal.  If there is going to be a good percentage of kids that are OOB in the 1st class, this might weaken the academics even more.[/quote]

I attended a presentation that suggested MacArthur would offer two tracks for social studies in 9th and 10th, regular and pre-AP/AP World. Has anyone heard any updates on that?[/quote]

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