Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them.

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars.

An A+ at Wootton has far more relevance than an A+ at GHS. it’s just simply easier to have better scores when tests are graded on a curve to account for all the kids that fail. So yeah, graduating with a 4.0 at GHS is not nearly the same at graduating with a 4.0 at Wootton.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be simialr to RM.

RM as it is today with the county-wide IB program or the RM of the future without it?

It's hard to say till we see new boudaries. But somewhere in the range. RM will still have a great IB magnet program. A bit diluted but it will have a strong one.

RM pulls from neighborhoods with strong working class families who care very much about their kids’ education. I would choose to be sent here way before I would choose to be sent to Crown.
-Current Wootton Parent

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be simialr to RM.

RM as it is today with the county-wide IB program or the RM of the future without it?

It's hard to say till we see new boudaries. But somewhere in the range. RM will still have a great IB magnet program. A bit diluted but it will have a strong one.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be simialr to RM.

RM as it is today with the county-wide IB program or the RM of the future without it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them.

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars.

An A+ at Wootton has far more relevance than an A+ at GHS. it’s just simply easier to have better scores when tests are graded on a curve to account for all the kids that fail. So yeah, graduating with a 4.0 at GHS is not nearly the same at graduating with a 4.0 at Wootton.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them.

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be simialr to RM.

RM as it is today with the county-wide IB program or the RM of the future without it?

RM without IB will be no different or better than GHS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be simialr to RM.

RM as it is today with the county-wide IB program or the RM of the future without it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them.

Anonymous wrote:It will be simialr to RM.

Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.