Charming as it is, turns out Annapolis is not a DC exurb teeming with good schools. City schools devote outsized resources on kids with poor English language proficiency and poverty-driven behavioral problems. Interesting to hear of a viable honors program operating like a parallel universe at Annapolis HS, but that still doesn't sound very appealing.

The highly regarded high schools are east of the Severn River, in Severna Park and Broadneck. But the punishing rush-hour river crossing really stretches the feasibility of a daily DC commute—it's like a tax to pay for the superior schools there.

West of the South River, you get Arundel and South River HS. These are good, but SR in particular draws from a more rural, blue-collar, and conservative base of families. South River is even less diverse than Broadneck and Severna Park, but Arundel has a decent non-white proportion.

Crofton has its fans, but it's not much easer to access from DC than Broadneck, given delays on Crain Hwy (Md. Rt. 3). You can find nice homes in Davidsonville and Gambrills, but otherwise hard to get excited about the dearth of neighborhoodliness there.

Severna parks schools have some of the best test scores in the state.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard Annapolis is a B-A-D.

Any area your are focused on in particular?

How about Crofton?

If you live in Crofton it's split in to two schools south river and arundel. South river is good and has a strong stem program tops in the county.

Anonymous wrote:I heard Annapolis is a B-A-D.

Any area your are focused on in particular?

How about Crofton?

Anonymous wrote:23:00 here - Obviously I am available for grammar tutoring. NE-tyme.

Don't be a fucking smart ass... Now spell that shit...

Anonymous wrote:LOL to the pp. I grew up in AA county and attended Annapolis High. My friends and I were all in the honors/AP program though and we all went on to great colleges. Several of the pyramids in AA are excellent (Severna Park, Broadneck and others), however there are a handful that would probably be considered unacceptable to most of the DCUM crowd.

If your DC is motivated and independent, there is no reason they can't get an excellent education even in the "bad" schools. I will say that the children who weren't in the higher level courses really got the short end of the stick. In the "regular" classes, teachers spend so much time handling discipline issues that students who really do want to learn are SOL. If your DC is one that easily caves under peer pressure I would also be very careful of which scho

Times change!

LOL to the pp. I grew up in AA county and attended Annapolis High. My friends and I were all in the honors/AP program though and we all went on to great colleges. Several of the pyramids in AA are excellent (Severna Park, Broadneck and others), however there are a handful that would probably be considered unacceptable to most of the DCUM crowd.

If your DC is motivated and independent, there is no reason they can't get an excellent education even in the "bad" schools. I will say that the children who weren't in the higher level courses really got the short end of the stick. In the "regular" classes, teachers spend so much time handling discipline issues that students who really do want to learn are SOL. If your DC is one that easily caves under peer pressure I would also be very careful of which scho

I lived in Naptown until 2010. The elementary schooler are ok but the MS are appalling, with rampant bullying and harassment. Teachers flee the schools for Severna park, Broadneck area schools or otherwise drive to Montgomery, Howard, Baltimore Counties. I know several Annapolis HS grads who were in all honors classes and said they pretended they were in a different school from the rest and that their education was excellent. They go to excellent colleges now

Broadneck and Severna Park schools are the best in AA County.

Not historically the strongest, but the close-in burbs of Annapolis are getting stronger.

Agree city of Annapolis schools can be bad.

23:00 here - Obviously I am available for grammar tutoring. NE-tyme.

I heard Annapolis is a B-A-D.

Any area your are focused on in particular?

First of all its Anne Arundel.

Talk to me about Ann arundel schools? Public only...