u/Osetiya

US News released their 2026-2027 high school rankings and usually I take these with a grain of salt, but it was nice to see how well AACPS did overall. Nearly half of its 13 comprehensive high schools landed in the top 50 high schools in Maryland, and ~70% of them were ranked among the top 20% of high schools in the whole country. Some of the county’s historically poorly ranked high schools—Meade, Glen Burnie, and North County, made huge gains, too. Meade in particularly went from being ranked in the bottom half of high schools in the whole country to being ranked in the top 30% of high schools in the country.

The breakdown is as follows:

Top 5% in the country:

- Severna Park High School (#9 in MD)
- Chesapeake Science Point Charter School (#16 in MD)
- South River High School (#21 in MD)

Top 10% in the country:

- Crofton High School (#24 in MD)
- Broadneck High School (#28 in MD)
- Arundel High School (#33 in MD)

Top 15% in the country:

- Southern High School (#49 in MD)

Top 20% in the country:

- Annapolis High School (#63 in MD)
- Glen Burnie High School (#70 in MD)
- North County High School (#71 in MD)

Top 25% in the country:

- Northeast High School (#78 in MD)
- Old Mill High School (#80 in MD)
- Chesapeake High School (#86 in MD)

Top 30% in the country:

- Meade High School (#101 in MD)

Severn Run High School has not yet been ranked because it is still too new. It will probably show up in US News rankings beginning next year.

I’ve lost track of the amount of times I have missed a train or bus because the people in front of me were slow on the stairs/path to it and would not keep to the right so that people in a rush could get through easily. I’m from DC originally, and on our transit system there, the “keep to the right if you’re not in a rush rule” is *strictly* unofficially enforced. People will aggressively say “excuse me” to you really loudly in DC if you’re slow and you’re taking up the left side of the stairs/escalators. For better or worse, this enforces the social contract there very well.

Also, on the CTA, so many people will literally push you out of their way to get to the front doors before the train or bus arrives at the stop and act like they’re the only ones trying to get off at the stop, even when others in front of them are also getting off at that stop. I can’t with the main character syndrome sometimes.

Then finally, there’s the manspreaders (who are often times women as well). They literally won’t make room for you to sit down and they’ll spread their legs out wide af into your space while giving no fucks at all.

I’m not saying that everyone is like this or even that most transit riders are like this, but it’s definitely a significant minority, and they make the transit-riding experience more annoying.