Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville does not get enough pub around here. Best public HS in USNews just came out last week and listed PHS as the best public HS in the state.

Yes, when half of the students are at a school because they got high scores on a standardized application test, the school's standardized test scores are likely to be high.

If that's how you define "best high school," that is. But why would you do that?

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville does not get enough pub around here. Best public HS in USNews just came out last week and listed PHS as the best public HS in the state.

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville does not get enough pub around here. Best public HS in USNews just came out last week and listed PHS as the best public HS in the state.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville does not get enough pub around here. Best public HS in USNews just came out last week and listed PHS as the best public HS in the state.

Poolesville and Whitman bounce back and forth being the best in the state, both are great. One is naturally so the other is simply small group of exurb middle class white kids with a test in magnet placed there from a much lower rated consortium to keep the doors open for a school that was about to close.

[b]Most people don’t want to live anywhere that would qualify their kids to go to poolesville. [/b It is telling though that with its magnet program poolesville competes with the best in the state. Blair is one of the weaker rated HS in the MoCo even with its beloved program. Shows you the difference in the general populations.

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville does not get enough pub around here. Best public HS in USNews just came out last week and listed PHS as the best public HS in the state.

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville does not get enough pub around here. Best public HS in USNews just came out last week and listed PHS as the best public HS in the state.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blair not mentioned here? At all?

Especially with folks talking about a shorter commute to DC?

Blair is more diverse than all of the schools discussed here, and even outside of the Magnet programs, kids can get an excellent education.

-Signed, Blair graduate from upcounty who moved to Downtown SS partly so her kid could go to Blair

Hands down the best high-school in the county in terms of opportunity. Sure, it has more highs and lows than the segregated schools but overall the highs are much higher and the data shows this is true for typical higher SES students. For example, the average white student at Blair has a much higher SAT average than white students at any W. The data has been posted here numerous times.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whitman hands down. Sorry folks, not wanting to cause a riot but you know its true.

Best options - look at the academics offered, in the sciences there's the possibility of taking a bio-medicine track

in the languages they have the most options in the county

and the best outcomes in terms of grads going onto top colleges (there is a list printed every year and its usually linked by someone in the colleges thread).

That's because all of their families are wealthy. Don't mistake demographics for academic quality. It's a public high school with large class sizes and a lot of wealthy kids.

don't try and divorce outcomes from results. Better parents, better schools, better bank accounts what ever. The kids simply have better results, you are rationalizing trying feel better about your outcome.

Nope. I don't need to rationalize anything. I know my advantages.

Based on your tone, you apparently have a hard time convincing the world of them. Maybe you are delusional

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whitman hands down. Sorry folks, not wanting to cause a riot but you know its true.

Best options - look at the academics offered, in the sciences there's the possibility of taking a bio-medicine track

in the languages they have the most options in the county

and the best outcomes in terms of grads going onto top colleges (there is a list printed every year and its usually linked by someone in the colleges thread).

That's because all of their families are wealthy. Don't mistake demographics for academic quality. It's a public high school with large class sizes and a lot of wealthy kids.

don't try and divorce outcomes from results. Better parents, better schools, better bank accounts what ever. The kids simply have better results, you are rationalizing trying feel better about your outcome.

Nope. I don't need to rationalize anything. I know my advantages.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whitman hands down. Sorry folks, not wanting to cause a riot but you know its true.

Best options - look at the academics offered, in the sciences there's the possibility of taking a bio-medicine track

in the languages they have the most options in the county

and the best outcomes in terms of grads going onto top colleges (there is a list printed every year and its usually linked by someone in the colleges thread).

That's because all of their families are wealthy. Don't mistake demographics for academic quality. It's a public high school with large class sizes and a lot of wealthy kids.

don't try and divorce outcomes from results. Better parents, better schools, better bank accounts what ever. The kids simply have better results, you are rationalizing trying feel better about your outcome.

Wow. You’re an awful person. So I’m a worse parent because my kid goes to QOHS?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whitman hands down. Sorry folks, not wanting to cause a riot but you know its true.

Best options - look at the academics offered, in the sciences there's the possibility of taking a bio-medicine track

in the languages they have the most options in the county

and the best outcomes in terms of grads going onto top colleges (there is a list printed every year and its usually linked by someone in the colleges thread).

That's because all of their families are wealthy. Don't mistake demographics for academic quality. It's a public high school with large class sizes and a lot of wealthy kids.

don't try and divorce outcomes from results. Better parents, better schools, better bank accounts what ever. The kids simply have better results, you are rationalizing trying feel better about your outcome.