Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1fehvjy/2025_nmsf_delaware_and_washington_dc/#lightbox

For DC it looks like less than 50 kids?

SFS 11
GDS 7
STA 6
Walls 6
NCS 3
Basis 3
WIS 2
St John’s 2
Latin 2
Maret 1
Field 1
JR 1
Gonzaga 1

Interesting. At the top end in Texas you have private schools with 20-30% of their graduating class earning NMSF.

I’m guessing the discrepancy has to do with distribution of student bodies among public/private schools among other things.

Anonymous wrote:LOL at BIM having only four.

They have a small class I believe.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1fehvjy/2025_nmsf_delaware_and_washington_dc/#lightbox

Wow, only 1 kid from JR, that’s surprising!

They don't pay the $8k for a neuropsych exam.
Sorry for being salty but some of these results are a joke. Their parents bought them. Off my soap box but there are kids who never, not once used their accommodation for in-school work but kept it active from early childhood and whipped it out for the PSAT (and then SAT).

many of the smartest kids from our school are not on the list. the cheaters are.

Others are of course legit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1fehvjy/2025_nmsf_delaware_and_washington_dc/#lightbox

Wow, only 1 kid from JR, that’s surprising!

Not surprising - they had a cluster last year when the administered the exam.

Lots of kids on that list from our school who had extra time. many other kids would be on it if they had twice the time to complete the PSAT (but magically never had to use their extra time for other school exams)

Just saying.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1fehvjy/2025_nmsf_delaware_and_washington_dc/#lightbox

Wow, only 1 kid from JR, that’s surprising!

One student out of 500+ seniors?!?Embarrassing! 😳

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1fehvjy/2025_nmsf_delaware_and_washington_dc/#lightbox

For DC it looks like less than 50 kids?

SFS 11
GDS 7
STA 6
Walls 6
NCS 3
Basis 3
WIS 2
St John’s 2
Latin 2
Maret 1
Field 1
JR 1
Gonzaga 1

Sidwell leads every year. What are they doing to prep these kids?

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1fehvjy/2025_nmsf_delaware_and_washington_dc/#lightbox

For DC it looks like less than 50 kids?

SFS 11
GDS 7
STA 6
Walls 6
NCS 3
Basis 3
WIS 2
St John’s 2
Latin 2
Maret 1
Field 1
JR 1
Gonzaga 1

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/psat/comments/1fehvjy/2025_nmsf_delaware_and_washington_dc/#lightbox

Wow, only 1 kid from JR, that’s surprising!

Anonymous wrote: (a long list)

Thanks for finding the Fairfax County schools! Random commentary:

Ideaventions Academy of Math and Science (2) - These guys are a tiny school, and for a second year in a row, fully half of their graduating class is NMSF. As I said last year, it's very hard to tell the value add of the school, but there is no question that Ideaventions can attract incredibly strong students. Especially given that geographic quotas now in place at TJ, this is one of the schools at which Nysmith/Rachel Carson parents probably should look.

Dominion Christian School (1) - The classics pay off.

Pinnacle Academy (1) - Gulen gulets results.

Trinity Christian (1) - I think this is at least the third year in a row TC has an NMSF recipient.

New School of Northern Virginia (1) - New School to the list.

Flint Hill (2) - Slipped from last year's great-for-them results, but as always, hard to tell from NMSF what's going on at a school -- too much randomness.

Basis Independent McLean (4) - Based. Looks like ~17% of the class this year.

Potomac (9) - The usual Fairfax County private champion. Big class, very smart students (~8% of the class); they'll continue to generate the raw numbers.

Go Holton!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The list from non-publics is tiny, 18 out of 158 in the county yowza.

A shade more than 11% is not as tiny as you might think. Two factors are in play, though -- there is a pretty big share of smart kids of well-off parents going to public in MoCo, and of the private kids, a lot of the smart-est and well-off-est are going to privates in Washington DC.

This is as good a place as any to note that NMSF has a different cut-off by state, and Washington DC's is historically very high, because it isn't a state. No idea if or when the College Board is planning to change that.

It's not because it isn't a state, it's because they has so few students that using the highest cut off actually gets DC more NMSFs than they would have using the standard formula used for states.

That doesn't make sense. DC has more population than several states, plus its private schools import quite a chunk of students.

Each school is sent a paper book with all names. Someone needs to get this copy and photograph the DC page. I think this is what happened last year--it was eventually posted to Reddit.

Then the individual schools generally put their own results on social media sometime in the next week(s).

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone's DC school released their numbers internally or on social media?

I can't find anything for DC. They no longer have the "Patch" or local paper so there's no one source that releases.

In the same boat; no news anywhere about and DC semifinalists.