2012: 1 MCPS high school in the top 100
2011: 2 MCPS high schools in top 100
Eight MCPS High Schools Ranked among Newsweek’s Top 500 High Schools
2010: 7 MCPS high schools in top 100
MCPS Has Seven Schools in Newsweek's Top 100 List
2009: 4 MCPS high schools in top 100
Newsweek Ranks Four MCPS High Schools in the Top 100 in the Nation
Someone should please correct me if I'm incorrect, but my recollection is about a decade ago MCPS had 1/2 its high schools (like 12 of them?) in the top 100 nationally on this measure of performance.
ReplyDeleteThe Superintendent and Board of Ed. used to make a big deal about this. I guess when performance is slipping it really isn't such a big deal any longer.
Bob Astrove
That list is completely oversimplified. All it does is take the total number of AP/IB exams given and divide it by the number of seniors in the school. All it does is measure how many students took an exam. It doesn't measure their performance on said exam. As an MCPS employee I never took pride when schools were on the list, and don't really care when schools aren't on the list, because there's so much more than goes into making a quality school.
ReplyDeleteRichard Montgomery HS (#365) is identified as 'open enrollment' however the IB program there is highly competitive and is by no means 'open enrollment.' MCPS has never been willing to separate out the IB program stats from the general school population so we can not find out what the real numbers are. Newsweek should recognize this in their calculations.
ReplyDeletePretty funny that #81 - only MCPS school in top 100 - isn't even one of the "W" schools. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
ReplyDeleteNewsweek's system has changed over the years. This is what it is now.
ReplyDelete" The list is based on six components provided by school administrators: graduation rate (25 percent), college matriculation rate (25 percent), AP/IB/AICE tests taken per student (25 percent), average SAT/ACT scores (10 percent), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10 percent), and AP courses offered per student(5 percent)"