CES Lottery

[Anonymous]

I see in our USPS mail alerts the CES letter. Fingers crossed...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or does it seem like the schools know who already got accepted? Just a vibe I got last week.

We don't. I'm at a CES school; we don't know who gets in any sooner than you. We have guesses about some students we think should make it, but sometimes they're waitlisted, so there really isn't any way to know until the lists come out and parents accept.

[Anonymous]

If you are at a high performing school like a W feeder, chances are pretty slim. Like my 3rd graders class is 90% gifted. What are the odds that my kid will be selected?? Almost 0. Although my older kid was waitlisted and later offered a spot over the summer. Chances are pretty slim.

[Anonymous]

Is this letter just for the lottery? Will it give information regarding enriched studies at home ES or is that a different letter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know the chances of our kids actually getting in? How many students are in the lottery vs how many actually get seats (approx)?

In our home elementary school, there were only 2-3 spots each year for CES for the entire 3rd grade. We had 3 classes of 3rd graders when my child got in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this letter just for the lottery? Will it give information regarding enriched studies at home ES or is that a different letter?

We got a separate letter from our home ES about compacted math.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know what the criteria was to get entered into the lottery?

[Anonymous]

Got our letter in todays mail - made it into the lottery, but didn’t get picked for CES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Got our letter in todays mail - made it into the lottery, but didn’t get picked for CES.

What was the criteria?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got our letter in todays mail - made it into the lottery, but didn’t get picked for CES.

What was the criteria?

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/elementary/center-enriched-studies" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/elementary/center-enriched-studies

All the info is here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this letter just for the lottery? Will it give information regarding enriched studies at home ES or is that a different letter?

We got a separate letter from our home ES about compacted math.

The CES letter says if your kid qualifies for enriched literacy at home ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this letter just for the lottery? Will it give information regarding enriched studies at home ES or is that a different letter?

We got a separate letter from our home ES about compacted math.

The CES letter says if your kid qualifies for enriched literacy at home ES.

Not that they’ll get it necessarily. But they qualified, so yay?

[Anonymous]

It’s a sh!tty process but at least it’s equitably sh!tyy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this letter just for the lottery? Will it give information regarding enriched studies at home ES or is that a different letter?

We got a separate letter from our home ES about compacted math.

This is what we’re waiting for but haven’t heard a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what the criteria was to get entered into the lottery?

Last I knew it was something like the top 20% using local norms. The actual values have been posted, but at a low FARMS school, that may be 95th% and above.