Anonymous
05/23/2012 18:38
Subject: s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
Anonymous wrote:Back in the day (5 years ago), BCC and Richard Montgomery were in the top 5 or 10.
The fact that the results are so volatile speaks volumes about how schools can manipulate their own rankings. Just get more kids in your school to take APs or IBs.
Or maybe they are trying to get more kids to take APs or IBs to get ready for college?
Anonymous
05/23/2012 16:17
Subject: s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
Back in the day (5 years ago), BCC and Richard Montgomery were in the top 5 or 10.
The fact that the results are so volatile speaks volumes about how schools can manipulate their own rankings. Just get more kids in your school to take APs or IBs.
The fact that the results are so volatile speaks volumes about how schools can manipulate their own rankings. Just get more kids in your school to take APs or IBs.
Anonymous
05/23/2012 09:21
Subject: s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
Anonymous wrote:There are 20+ HSs in MoCo? wow.
I'd like to see studies that focus on sub-groups while holding income equal. middle income kids at Whooton vs. at Wheaton - how do they do in terms of both meeting the basics but also being pushed to Excel (perhaps as shown by AP scores - not simply taking the test). Same with low income - how do they do at a Green zone school and how do they do in a Red Zone school. That would tell a lot more to families about how their particular kid might fare in a spot.
I think there are 25 high schools in MCPS. I think it is one of the 10 largest school districts in the country.
MCPS puts out a ton of data on each school so if you really want to dig in to it you can. It's not sorted by income but you can find number of AP test takers, score distribution, SATs by race, gender, etc.
Anonymous
05/22/2012 21:56
Subject: s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Here's how the US News and World Report high school issue ranked the Mont. Co. schools (see http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools)
Churchill
Whitman
Wootton
Poolesville
Walter Johnson
BCC
Richard Montgomery
Montgomery Blair
Rockville
Einstein
Wheaton
...and none of the other 15 MoCo high schools made their list.
When you check US News's methodology (http://www.usnews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2012/05/07/best-high-schools-methodology), they put particular emphasis on schools whose minority and economically disadvantaged students are performing particularly well, and also stressed the overall college-readiness performance of the student body, with APs or IBs.
This means absolutely nothing. To rank Wheaton in that list is laughable.
What is laughable about it? Can you elaborate?
Anonymous
05/22/2012 20:56
Subject: s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
There are 20+ HSs in MoCo? wow.
I'd like to see studies that focus on sub-groups while holding income equal. middle income kids at Whooton vs. at Wheaton - how do they do in terms of both meeting the basics but also being pushed to Excel (perhaps as shown by AP scores - not simply taking the test). Same with low income - how do they do at a Green zone school and how do they do in a Red Zone school. That would tell a lot more to families about how their particular kid might fare in a spot.
I'd like to see studies that focus on sub-groups while holding income equal. middle income kids at Whooton vs. at Wheaton - how do they do in terms of both meeting the basics but also being pushed to Excel (perhaps as shown by AP scores - not simply taking the test). Same with low income - how do they do at a Green zone school and how do they do in a Red Zone school. That would tell a lot more to families about how their particular kid might fare in a spot.
Anonymous
05/22/2012 10:32
Subject: Re:s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
Can the pp who found Wheaton laughable please elaborate?
Anonymous
05/22/2012 09:48
Subject: Re:s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
I think that's pretty great, myself.
Anonymous
05/22/2012 09:43
Subject: s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
Anonymous wrote:Here's how the US News and World Report high school issue ranked the Mont. Co. schools (see http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools)
Churchill
Whitman
Wootton
Poolesville
Walter Johnson
BCC
Richard Montgomery
Montgomery Blair
Rockville
Einstein
Wheaton
...and none of the other 15 MoCo high schools made their list.
When you check US News's methodology (http://www.usnews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2012/05/07/best-high-schools-methodology), they put particular emphasis on schools whose minority and economically disadvantaged students are performing particularly well, and also stressed the overall college-readiness performance of the student body, with APs or IBs.
This means absolutely nothing. To rank Wheaton in that list is laughable.
Anonymous
05/22/2012 05:30
Subject: s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
....and if you check the methodology, they only count results from one of the standardized tests, either AP OR IB, whichever has more students taking the test - so the schools in Montgomery County that offer both are ranked below where they should be.
Anonymous
05/21/2012 21:25
Subject: s/o Mont. Co. rankings in US News and World Report list
Here's how the US News and World Report high school issue ranked the Mont. Co. schools (see http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools)
Churchill
Whitman
Wootton
Poolesville
Walter Johnson
BCC
Richard Montgomery
Montgomery Blair
Rockville
Einstein
Wheaton
...and none of the other 15 MoCo high schools made their list.
When you check US News's methodology (http://www.usnews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2012/05/07/best-high-schools-methodology), they put particular emphasis on schools whose minority and economically disadvantaged students are performing particularly well, and also stressed the overall college-readiness performance of the student body, with APs or IBs.
Churchill
Whitman
Wootton
Poolesville
Walter Johnson
BCC
Richard Montgomery
Montgomery Blair
Rockville
Einstein
Wheaton
...and none of the other 15 MoCo high schools made their list.
When you check US News's methodology (http://www.usnews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2012/05/07/best-high-schools-methodology), they put particular emphasis on schools whose minority and economically disadvantaged students are performing particularly well, and also stressed the overall college-readiness performance of the student body, with APs or IBs.