Anonymous
12/14/2018 20:29
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
yes, and it also has about a 20% FARMs rate. I'd like to see a W school have a 20% FARMS rate and see if they get a 80 percentile rating. Funny how even though it's so horrible so many people keep moving in to the area.
Quince Orchard - FARMs is 21 % --- Rated at 61 percentile
Rockville High - FARMs 31% --- Rated at 63 percentile
RM with IB magnet with 20% FARMs is rated at 56 percentile --- It's really a shameful standing in entire state. FARMs is not the reason here.
You can even compare with BLAIR with 36% FARMS( drastically higher than RM) and still BLAIR is higher percentile than RM.
It's really a poor high school otherwise it shouldn't stand at 56 percentile in state despite having magnet.
It's really poor showing from RM. Non-magnets schools with higher FARMs are doing better. Now city wants to put 500-600 extra students in high school without having space there. People should run away from RM.
Yet they keep moving to RM and the council wants to build a bunch of buildings that no one will want to live in due to bad schools. Proof positive they should build more high rises.
People move to 10 percentile school as well. People moving to any school district has no relationship to how well the school is run. Right now with 120% capacity limit we will have 400 extra students. City wanting to add more students is pure insanity. School is already poorly run as shown by MD report card. Add more kids without seats will make it worse.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 20:25
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
yes, and it also has about a 20% FARMs rate. I'd like to see a W school have a 20% FARMS rate and see if they get a 80 percentile rating. Funny how even though it's so horrible so many people keep moving in to the area.
Nothing funny about people moving to area. It's about families serious about education are moving here or simply lots of families are moving here. Evidence seems to indicate later situation.
If other schools with worse FARMs rate are doing better than RM despite not hosting a magnet then it tells a lot about RM. I don't think most area around RM is cheap, but performance of RM is very poor.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 20:23
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
yes, and it also has about a 20% FARMs rate. I'd like to see a W school have a 20% FARMS rate and see if they get a 80 percentile rating. Funny how even though it's so horrible so many people keep moving in to the area.
Quince Orchard - FARMs is 21 % --- Rated at 61 percentile
Rockville High - FARMs 31% --- Rated at 63 percentile
RM with IB magnet with 20% FARMs is rated at 56 percentile --- It's really a shameful standing in entire state. FARMs is not the reason here.
You can even compare with BLAIR with 36% FARMS( drastically higher than RM) and still BLAIR is higher percentile than RM.
It's really a poor high school otherwise it shouldn't stand at 56 percentile in state despite having magnet.
It's really poor showing from RM. Non-magnets schools with higher FARMs are doing better. Now city wants to put 500-600 extra students in high school without having space there. People should run away from RM.
Yet they keep moving to RM and the council wants to build a bunch of buildings that no one will want to live in due to bad schools. Proof positive they should build more high rises.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 19:15
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
It's nearly impossible *not* to be FARMS in this area if you have more than one child. Ridiculously expensive.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 18:43
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
yes, and it also has about a 20% FARMs rate. I'd like to see a W school have a 20% FARMS rate and see if they get a 80 percentile rating. Funny how even though it's so horrible so many people keep moving in to the area.
Nothing funny about people moving to area. It's about families serious about education are moving here or simply lots of families are moving here. Evidence seems to indicate later situation.
Most parents who move here want good schools for their kids, so clearly RM isn't horrible enough to deter many folks from moving to this area, and it's not like this area is cheap, either.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 18:24
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
yes, and it also has about a 20% FARMs rate. I'd like to see a W school have a 20% FARMS rate and see if they get a 80 percentile rating. Funny how even though it's so horrible so many people keep moving in to the area.
Nothing funny about people moving to area. It's about families serious about education are moving here or simply lots of families are moving here. Evidence seems to indicate later situation.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 18:21
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
yes, and it also has about a 20% FARMs rate. I'd like to see a W school have a 20% FARMS rate and see if they get a 80 percentile rating. Funny how even though it's so horrible so many people keep moving in to the area.
Quince Orchard - FARMs is 21 % --- Rated at 61 percentile
Rockville High - FARMs 31% --- Rated at 63 percentile
RM with IB magnet with 20% FARMs is rated at 56 percentile --- It's really a shameful standing in entire state. FARMs is not the reason here.
You can even compare with BLAIR with 36% FARMS( drastically higher than RM) and still BLAIR is higher percentile than RM.
It's really a poor high school otherwise it shouldn't stand at 56 percentile in state despite having magnet.
It's really poor showing from RM. Non-magnets schools with higher FARMs are doing better. Now city wants to put 500-600 extra students in high school without having space there. People should run away from RM.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 18:19
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
yes, and it also has about a 20% FARMs rate. I'd like to see a W school have a 20% FARMS rate and see if they get a 80 percentile rating. Funny how even though it's so horrible so many people keep moving in to the area.
Quince Orchard - FARMs is 21 % --- Rated at 61 percentile
Rockville High - FARMs 31% --- Rated at 63 percentile
RM with IB magnet with 20% FARMs is rated at 56 percentile --- It's really a shameful standing in entire state. FARMs is not the reason here.
You can even compare with BLAIR with 36% FARMS( drastically higher than RM) and still BLAIR is higher percentile than RM.
It's really a poor high school otherwise it shouldn't stand at 56 percentile in state despite having magnet.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 17:50
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
yes, and it also has about a 20% FARMs rate. I'd like to see a W school have a 20% FARMS rate and see if they get a 80 percentile rating. Funny how even though it's so horrible so many people keep moving in to the area.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 17:42
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
RM is rated as 56 percentile in MD report card despite having IB magnet. With all this over crowding, people are better off with some other schools. Even city wants to make situation worse.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 15:46
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know someone doing it for RM now. Nice family. Used to live in Grandma's house, but bought something upcounty. I don't know why they don't go to the school closer to home. I didn't know they have moved until my DC told me. "Oh, his grandma still lives there, so that's why."
This. We know of two families that are doing this (attending a school out of bounds). One girl used her aunt’s address, who does live in a condo. And one uses a King Farm address to attend RM, though he actually lives elsewhere.
In both of those cases, the generation rate would be an OVERestimate for housing in the RM cluster, not an UNDERestimate. The girl is counted as living in her aunt's condo even though she doesn't. The boy is counted as living in King Farm (in whatever type of housing) even though he doesn't.
I realize that. Someone made a point that MCPS has certain projections about how many kids live in condos. I was just pointing out that those projections may not always be useful. It’s likely that more kids will end up coming from those housing units than MCPS is projecting.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 14:49
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know someone doing it for RM now. Nice family. Used to live in Grandma's house, but bought something upcounty. I don't know why they don't go to the school closer to home. I didn't know they have moved until my DC told me. "Oh, his grandma still lives there, so that's why."
If their address of record is in the Richard Montgomery cluster, then they're included in the Richard Montgomery cluster's projected enrollment.
They are supposed to be attending school upcounty. Sure, they are part of the RM projection, but it's not like they are supposed to be attending RM. The projections are now off for one of the upcounty schools.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 12:58
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know someone doing it for RM now. Nice family. Used to live in Grandma's house, but bought something upcounty. I don't know why they don't go to the school closer to home. I didn't know they have moved until my DC told me. "Oh, his grandma still lives there, so that's why."
This. We know of two families that are doing this (attending a school out of bounds). One girl used her aunt’s address, who does live in a condo. And one uses a King Farm address to attend RM, though he actually lives elsewhere.
In both of those cases, the generation rate would be an OVERestimate for housing in the RM cluster, not an UNDERestimate. The girl is counted as living in her aunt's condo even though she doesn't. The boy is counted as living in King Farm (in whatever type of housing) even though he doesn't.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 12:56
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Also, lots of people use false addresses in MCPS. This has been discussed before. MCPS can’t track where every student lives. And many families use a relative’s address to attend a school, even when they do not live in bounds for that school.
People do that for W schools, not RM.
Not true.
People who live on the other side of King Farm try to send their kids to RM, instead of Gaithersburg HS. Easier than sending kids to a W school that might be father away.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 12:54
Subject: RM Cluster Overcrowding?
Anonymous wrote:I know someone doing it for RM now. Nice family. Used to live in Grandma's house, but bought something upcounty. I don't know why they don't go to the school closer to home. I didn't know they have moved until my DC told me. "Oh, his grandma still lives there, so that's why."
This. We know of two families that are doing this (attending a school out of bounds). One girl used her aunt’s address, who does live in a condo. And one uses a King Farm address to attend RM, though he actually lives elsewhere.