They also had 27 National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists this year.
That school's catchment area contains the zip code with the highest median household income in the state (over double the state median HH income) and a very large number of tech workers with STEM masters and PhDs who work for the area's largest tech employer. The robotics team is not directly affiliated with the school and is run by parents. When those tech worker families have a stay at home parent (by choice or because only one parent has an H1B/is a citizen), the kids are afterschooled and enriched to weapons grade levels.
Your gifted kid(s) will find an outsized cohort of gifted kids there, but they will also have a much more difficult time standing out when it comes time to apply to college. Just don't expect your PG kid to be able to compete on his own when all of the gifted kids are getting heroic amounts of assistance, advocacy, and prodding from their parents.
Last edited by ChaosMitten; 05/11/15 08:10 AM.
