Poolesville High School is ranked #64 on Newsweek’s list of the top 100 public high schools in the nation and the #1 school in the State of Maryland |
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The 2011 America's Best High Schools list ranks schools based on their efforts to provide all students access to rigorous classes, such as Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses. Students who succeed in rigorous classes, like AP, are more than three times as likely to get a bachelor’s degree than those who do not, according to college completion data. Among MCPS students in the classes of 2001-2004, only 25 percent of those who did not take an AP exam earned a bachelor’s degree. But among those students who took at least one AP exam, 60 percent earned a degree, and among those who scored 3 or higher on at least one exam, 76 percent earned a bachelor’s degree. |
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Poolesville High School is home to the Global Ecology Studies Program, the Math Science/Computer Science Magnet Program, and the Humanities Program. The SAT mean scores of PHS has drastically increased due to the new magnet programs. |
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