School clusters where kids stay together?

[Anonymous]

Considering moving to Montgomery County from DC, where my elementary aged kids are often losing friends because of the lottery, especially as middle school approaches. In an ideal world I’d love to move to a school cluster where kids generally stay together for middle and high school, even if they’re advanced students (currently kids are way above grade level). With the magnet programs does that mean kids don’t stay together? Or are there middle-high school paths in the county where kids go though middle and high together (Einstein?)?

[Anonymous]

The Rockville HS cluster has five elementary schools all feeding to the same middle and high school.

Elementaries:
Barnsley
Flower Valley
Maryvale
Meadow Hall
Rock Creek Valley

All feed to Wood Middle School and Rockville High School, which is one of the smaller high schools in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Whitman would fit this, as would BCC (though some kids will peel off for private school in MS or HS). Fewer lottery and money options as far as I know (we are in ES in BCC cluster).

[Anonymous]

Richard Montgomery and Walt Whitman are also high schools with only one middle school feeder. But there are boundary studies in the near future which could change that.

[Anonymous]

In the Wootton district, any home districted to Travilah elementary, Fallsmead elementary, or Lakewood elementary are the sole feeders into Robert Frost middle. The entirety of Robert Frost middle feeds in to Wootton.

[Anonymous]

There will always be some kids who go to magnet or other special programs.

[Anonymous]

For Churchill HS, any elementary school that feeds into Hoover MS will be a k-12 cohort (Cabin John MS splits between Wootton and Churchill)

[Anonymous]

My child's cohort stayed mostly together through Piney Branch, TPMS, and Blair, since those schools also host programs for advanced learners.

[Anonymous]

With the two big boundary studies coming, there are bound to be more split articulations from middle to high school. They're building two new high schools but no new middle schools, so it's inevitable.

[Anonymous]

You probably want to be downcounty for the sake of work commutes, but fwiw, we’re upcounty and my dd attended the Humanities magnet at MLK and now is at Poolesville with many of the same kids, plus kids from our home cluster, who attended our home elementary school, which has a local CES.

RCES -> MLK MS -> PHS

[Anonymous]

We are an Einstein family and love it, but it doesn’t have the stability you’re looking for since it is part of the DCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whitman would fit this, as would BCC (though some kids will peel off for private school in MS or HS). Fewer lottery and money options as far as I know (we are in ES in BCC cluster).

Don’t the BCC feeders split up and come back together at assorted points in ES and MS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whitman would fit this, as would BCC (though some kids will peel off for private school in MS or HS). Fewer lottery and money options as far as I know (we are in ES in BCC cluster).

Don’t the BCC feeders split up and come back together at assorted points in ES and MS?

Rosemary Hills splits into NCCES and CCES, then they all feed to Silver Creek MS and BCC

[Anonymous]

The majority of Mcps (EXCEPT the consortiums - DCC and ECC) is going to have a moderately intact community through high school but ofc folks move, kids opt for private, etc etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The majority of Mcps (EXCEPT the consortiums - DCC and ECC) is going to have a moderately intact community through high school but ofc folks move, kids opt for private, etc etc.

DCC and NEC.