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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you do, don’t send your kids to a high farms school. My kid went to 65%, 6%, and 35% farms schools and I think 35% or so is the breaking point.

There was some study that showed that something like 25 to 28% was the breaking point. Lower income kids who go to schools under that % do better than their peers who go to school with higher % of low income kids.

IMO, NWHS and RM cluster are probably the most racially diverse, with < 30% FARMs rate (last I checked this past year).

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you do, don’t send your kids to a high farms school. My kid went to 65%, 6%, and 35% farms schools and I think 35% or so is the breaking point.

There was some study that showed that something like 25 to 28% was the breaking point. Lower income kids who go to schools under that % do better than their peers who go to school with higher % of low income kids.

IMO, NWHS and RM cluster are probably the most racially diverse, with < 30% FARMs rate (last I checked this past year).

2022-2023
Northwest High School: 35.0% FARMS
Richard Montgomery High School: 30.5% FARMS

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you do, don’t send your kids to a high farms school. My kid went to 65%, 6%, and 35% farms schools and I think 35% or so is the breaking point.

There was some study that showed that something like 25 to 28% was the breaking point. Lower income kids who go to schools under that % do better than their peers who go to school with higher % of low income kids.

IMO, NWHS and RM cluster are probably the most racially diverse, with < 30% FARMs rate (last I checked this past year).

Anonymous wrote:Whatever you do, don’t send your kids to a high farms school. My kid went to 65%, 6%, and 35% farms schools and I think 35% or so is the breaking point.

Anonymous wrote:According to niche.com (can't verify the quality of their data, but our principal seemed pleased with the rating), Bayard Rustin Elementary in Rockville is the #1 most diverse elementary school in not just MoCo but all of Maryland.

https://www.niche.com/k12/bayard-rustin-elementary-school-rockville-md/

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Anonymous wrote:I am moving to Maryland soon and I’d like to know which schools have the most diversity. Also, I’m looking for something that has high test scores as well.

Depends what you mean by diverse. My child's school is racially diverse. He's white and 12% of the student population is white. But it also comes with a low SES so it is a pretty miserable school.

Contrast to the very diverse small private school he came from, where he was also a racial minority. But everyone obviously was middle class and higher. That was an amazing experience and I wish we could have continued it.

If I could have changed anything, I would have avoided low SES schools like the plague.

Schools don't have a low socioeconomic status. What you're talking about, is schools where lots of students have parents who didn't go to college and don't earn a lot of money. And yes, it is common for non-poor people to want to segregate themselves from poor people, at least in the US.

Lol. Unlike the rest of the world where rich and poor live together, linking hands and singing uplifting music?

I don't know about linking hands or singing uplifting music, but yes, there are other parts of the world where there is less spatial segregation between rich and poor.

I think MoCo actually is that place, pp.

No real gated communities. Growing low income and immigrant population dispersing throughout the county.

I do think socioeconomics trump race. Like others have said, a rainbow of UMC/affluent kids is fabulous, but a school with majority low income kids isn’t an environment anyone wants for their kids. ICYMI: Latinos are moving out of majority-Latino areas in MoCo precisely because they don’t want to be surrounded by other Latinos—particularly in school. They are moving up county in droves.

There are a lot of Latinos upcounty. If you were a Latino who wanted to move away from other Latinos, upcounty would not be the place to go[b].

This. Look at Gaithersburg and Germantown. Many low SES Latinos.