Anonymous wrote:This is so pointless. The MD vs VA/MCPS vs FCPS thing is silly. Both school systems have excellent, so-so, and not great schools. Pick where you want to leave and then pick the best school you can afford.

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Anonymous wrote:Top: NOVA publics, particularly most of fcps

Middle: MD schools

Bottom: DC schools. The good DC schools are equivalent to the middling MD schools and the top of the bottom NOVA schools.

You are too clueless
MD is always in the top 5 in the nation ( third this year after being #1 for 3 straight year).
VA never made top 5
The best schools are in MoCo. NoVa has only one great school :TJ

Overall Maryland state has stronger k-12 schools than Virginia, but NOVA --particularly FCPS --is a touch stronger than MCPS. In 2018, the average SAT scores across the 25 public Fairfax high schools was 1218. The average score for MCPS was 1167. They had similar participation rates. They are both very good, very diverse school systems with similar spectrums of mainly high wealth but pockets of poverty, lots of English Language learners, that attract and support high achieving students. Fairfax schools are slightly higher performing on a wide variety of metric--but it's a slight difference that doesn't make much of a difference.

No, this is far from the truth. MCPS is stronger than NoVa's and performs better than FCPS on a wide variety of metric.
Better AP passing rate
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=8161&type=&startYear=&pageNumber=&mode=

Better college preparedness
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-takes-first-place-in-ranking-on-college-preparedness-stem-career-readiness/

More schools producing more STEM scholars
https://student.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts-2019-scholars

More schools placing students in top Ivies
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/10/10/which-local-schools-have-the-most-graduates-go-on-to-the-ivy-league/re schools placing students in top Ivies

MCPS outperforms FCPS in almost every academic competitions .

And in the regional competition, it's not even close : the score is 36-4, MCPS

Your link on AP doesn't give a comparison to FCPS AP rates? DO you have that data? My knowledge of the historical data is that it's not a variable on which there is much difference between the systems, but things change.
The STEM scholar award is a particular program that FCPS doesn't participate in--they have different related ones. It's not a systematic evaluation of STEM placement.
The top Ivies may be more about the concentration of high levels of wealth and legacy--but your link doesn't work so I can't really see the evidence on that.
I don't know how you are assessing academic competitions--and the regional competition of what? There are many different competitions in many categories.
Anyway, my overall opinion to give to OP--as stated above-- is that MCPS and FCPS are fairly equivalent school systems and any differences between them are too minor to make a difference in your individual choices.

What???
Do you actually know what you're talking about? This is the Intel/Regeneron scholars. This is the mother of all STEM competitions. The biggest one.
"FCPS doesn't participate in"???? What? TJHSST was established for this kind of competition and challenge. Did you see that TJ has 6 scholars? One made finalist?

Here's the news from FCPS
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-student-named-finalist-regeneron-science-talent-search-competition
Don't talk about things you are clueless about.

So, OP, DC it is, right? We are in DC and have sent our kids to 2 elementary school. Not once did we feel that we need to move out because the education is weak. Don't know much about FCPS or MoCo, but the Upper NW schools are like the ones I went abroad.

LOL
This is a joke, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Top: NOVA publics, particularly most of fcps

Middle: MD schools

Bottom: DC schools. The good DC schools are equivalent to the middling MD schools and the top of the bottom NOVA schools.

You are too clueless
MD is always in the top 5 in the nation ( third this year after being #1 for 3 straight year).
VA never made top 5
The best schools are in MoCo. NoVa has only one great school :TJ

Overall Maryland state has stronger k-12 schools than Virginia, but NOVA --particularly FCPS --is a touch stronger than MCPS. In 2018, the average SAT scores across the 25 public Fairfax high schools was 1218. The average score for MCPS was 1167. They had similar participation rates. They are both very good, very diverse school systems with similar spectrums of mainly high wealth but pockets of poverty, lots of English Language learners, that attract and support high achieving students. Fairfax schools are slightly higher performing on a wide variety of metric--but it's a slight difference that doesn't make much of a difference.

No, this is far from the truth. MCPS is stronger than NoVa's and performs better than FCPS on a wide variety of metric.
Better AP passing rate
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=8161&type=&startYear=&pageNumber=&mode=

Better college preparedness
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-takes-first-place-in-ranking-on-college-preparedness-stem-career-readiness/

More schools producing more STEM scholars
https://student.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts-2019-scholars

More schools placing students in top Ivies
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/10/10/which-local-schools-have-the-most-graduates-go-on-to-the-ivy-league/re schools placing students in top Ivies

MCPS outperforms FCPS in almost every academic competitions .

And in the regional competition, it's not even close : the score is 36-4, MCPS

Your link on AP doesn't give a comparison to FCPS AP rates? DO you have that data? My knowledge of the historical data is that it's not a variable on which there is much difference between the systems, but things change.
The STEM scholar award is a particular program that FCPS doesn't participate in--they have different related ones. It's not a systematic evaluation of STEM placement.
The top Ivies may be more about the concentration of high levels of wealth and legacy--but your link doesn't work so I can't really see the evidence on that.
I don't know how you are assessing academic competitions--and the regional competition of what? There are many different competitions in many categories.
Anyway, my overall opinion to give to OP--as stated above-- is that MCPS and FCPS are fairly equivalent school systems and any differences between them are too minor to make a difference in your individual choices.

What???
Do you actually know what you're talking about? This is the Intel/Regeneron scholars. This is the mother of all STEM competitions. The biggest one.
"FCPS doesn't participate in"???? What? TJHSST was established for this kind of competition and challenge. Did you see that TJ has 6 scholars? One made finalist?

Here's the news from FCPS
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-student-named-finalist-regeneron-science-talent-search-competition
Don't talk about things you are clueless about.

So, OP, DC it is, right? We are in DC and have sent our kids to 2 elementary school. Not once did we feel that we need to move out because the education is weak. Don't know much about FCPS or MoCo, but the Upper NW schools are like the ones I went abroad.

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Anonymous wrote:Removing the Magnets, the best schools are still in MoCo.
NoVa really has one great school.

Not really.

FCPS has many more schools that are better than MD schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Top: NOVA publics, particularly most of fcps

Middle: MD schools

Bottom: DC schools. The good DC schools are equivalent to the middling MD schools and the top of the bottom NOVA schools.

You are too clueless
MD is always in the top 5 in the nation ( third this year after being #1 for 3 straight year).
VA never made top 5
The best schools are in MoCo. NoVa has only one great school :TJ

Overall Maryland state has stronger k-12 schools than Virginia, but NOVA --particularly FCPS --is a touch stronger than MCPS. In 2018, the average SAT scores across the 25 public Fairfax high schools was 1218. The average score for MCPS was 1167. They had similar participation rates. They are both very good, very diverse school systems with similar spectrums of mainly high wealth but pockets of poverty, lots of English Language learners, that attract and support high achieving students. Fairfax schools are slightly higher performing on a wide variety of metric--but it's a slight difference that doesn't make much of a difference.

No, this is far from the truth. MCPS is stronger than NoVa's and performs better than FCPS on a wide variety of metric.
Better AP passing rate
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=8161&type=&startYear=&pageNumber=&mode=

Better college preparedness
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-takes-first-place-in-ranking-on-college-preparedness-stem-career-readiness/

More schools producing more STEM scholars
https://student.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts-2019-scholars

More schools placing students in top Ivies
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/10/10/which-local-schools-have-the-most-graduates-go-on-to-the-ivy-league/re schools placing students in top Ivies

MCPS outperforms FCPS in almost every academic competitions .

And in the regional competition, it's not even close : the score is 36-4, MCPS

Your link on AP doesn't give a comparison to FCPS AP rates? DO you have that data? My knowledge of the historical data is that it's not a variable on which there is much difference between the systems, but things change.
The STEM scholar award is a particular program that FCPS doesn't participate in--they have different related ones. It's not a systematic evaluation of STEM placement.
The top Ivies may be more about the concentration of high levels of wealth and legacy--but your link doesn't work so I can't really see the evidence on that.
I don't know how you are assessing academic competitions--and the regional competition of what? There are many different competitions in many categories.
Anyway, my overall opinion to give to OP--as stated above-- is that MCPS and FCPS are fairly equivalent school systems and any differences between them are too minor to make a difference in your individual choices.

What???
Do you actually know what you're talking about? This is the Intel/Regeneron scholars. This is the mother of all STEM competitions. The biggest one.
"FCPS doesn't participate in"???? What? TJHSST was established for this kind of competition and challenge. Did you see that TJ has 6 scholars? One made finalist?

Here's the news from FCPS
https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-student-named-finalist-regeneron-science-talent-search-competition
Don't talk about things you are clueless about.

Anonymous wrote:Removing the Magnets, the best schools are still in MoCo.
NoVa really has one great school.

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Anonymous wrote:Top: NOVA publics, particularly most of fcps

Middle: MD schools

Bottom: DC schools. The good DC schools are equivalent to the middling MD schools and the top of the bottom NOVA schools.

You are too clueless
MD is always in the top 5 in the nation ( third this year after being #1 for 3 straight year).
VA never made top 5
The best schools are in MoCo. NoVa has only one great school :TJ

Overall Maryland state has stronger k-12 schools than Virginia, but NOVA --particularly FCPS --is a touch stronger than MCPS. In 2018, the average SAT scores across the 25 public Fairfax high schools was 1218. The average score for MCPS was 1167. They had similar participation rates. They are both very good, very diverse school systems with similar spectrums of mainly high wealth but pockets of poverty, lots of English Language learners, that attract and support high achieving students. Fairfax schools are slightly higher performing on a wide variety of metric--but it's a slight difference that doesn't make much of a difference.

No, this is far from the truth. MCPS is stronger than NoVa's and performs better than FCPS on a wide variety of metric.
Better AP passing rate
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=8161&type=&startYear=&pageNumber=&mode=

Better college preparedness
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-takes-first-place-in-ranking-on-college-preparedness-stem-career-readiness/

More schools producing more STEM scholars
https://student.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts-2019-scholars

More schools placing students in top Ivies
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/10/10/which-local-schools-have-the-most-graduates-go-on-to-the-ivy-league/re schools placing students in top Ivies

MCPS outperforms FCPS in almost every academic competitions .

And in the regional competition, it's not even close : the score is 36-4, MCPS

Your link on AP doesn't give a comparison to FCPS AP rates? DO you have that data? My knowledge of the historical data is that it's not a variable on which there is much difference between the systems, but things change.
The STEM scholar award is a particular program that FCPS doesn't participate in--they have different related ones. It's not a systematic evaluation of STEM placement.
The top Ivies may be more about the concentration of high levels of wealth and legacy--but your link doesn't work so I can't really see the evidence on that.
I don't know how you are assessing academic competitions--and the regional competition of what? There are many different competitions in many categories.
Anyway, my overall opinion to give to OP--as stated above-- is that MCPS and FCPS are fairly equivalent school systems and any differences between them are too minor to make a difference in your individual choices.