{"ap_courses":null,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":null,"at_a_glance":["The Potomac School is a private high school in McLean, VA.","The Potomac School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the past four years: 136 colleges, with per-college counts; the largest counts are University of Virginia (24), College of William & Mary (18), Wake Forest University (13), Dartmouth College (12), Boston College (9). Source: Matriculation page.","The Potomac School's feeder standing, from the schools' own published counts: #3 Dartmouth College, #4 William & Mary, #5 Virginia.","The Potomac School reported 7 National Merit Semifinalists in the Class of 2027, this year's seniors, who graduate in June 2027 (The Potomac School 2026-27 school profile).","The Potomac School reported an SAT combined middle-50% range of 1320-1520 for the Class of 2027, this year's seniors, who graduate in June 2027 (The Potomac School 2026-27 school profile).","The Potomac School reported that 9 students in the Class of 2026, the seniors who graduated in June 2026, were National Merit Semifinalists (The Potomac School 2025-26 school profile).","The Potomac School reported that the SAT combined middle-50% range for the Class of 2026, the seniors who graduated in June 2026, was 1270-1520, with a mean of 1394 (The Potomac School 2025-26 school profile).","Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named."],"caveats":["UC admits and applications are counted at each campus: a student admitted to three UCs counts three times. The UC Reach Score is those admits divided by the senior class, times 100, so a strong school scores above 100.","A published college list is the school's own document, copied as printed; counts are the school's, never ours, and an unnumbered list carries no counts.","Enrollment is NCES CCD for national pages and CDE for California pages; graduation and readiness measures are the state's or EDFacts' own definitions, named in each sentence.","Every figure here is also rendered on the HTML page it describes."],"chronic_absenteeism_pct":null,"city":"McLean","dual_enrollment":false,"enrollment":null,"enrollment_change_pct":null,"enrollment_change_span":[null,null],"faq":[{"a":"The Potomac School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the past four years: 136 colleges, with per-college counts; the largest counts are University of Virginia (24), College of William & Mary (18), Wake Forest University (13), Dartmouth College (12), Boston College (9). 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