<p>bulletandpima: USNWR changed their methodology last year. Wootton and a few other Montgomery County schools were Gold, but then they fell to honorable mention the next year. Really? Why a drop from Gold, past Silver and Bronze, all the way down to Honorable Mention? Wootton has not lost any ground, in fact they led the County and State in AP test taking, as well as the number of students who achieved 3 or higher on the AP exam.</p>
<p>Here are the MD results from 2009:</p>
<p>Gold (all from Montgomery County)
Walt Whitman, Thomas S. Wootton, Winston Churchill</p>
<p>Silver
Baltimore City College, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Centennial, Eastern Technical in Baltimore County, North Hagerstown, River Hill, Smithsburg Senior, Snow Hill</p>