2024 MS Criteria Based Lottery Results

[Anonymous]

I feel like I missed something. We didn't get any emails (or maybe I missed reading it) about criteria based magnets. I just went online to check but am still not clear. Do you have to apply for this or the school automatically does this for you? My kid is in GT and meets the requirements I see online - A's in Math and Science, 97th percentile (so above the 85th minimum).

If we had to do it ourselves I am going to beat myself over this for years to come. I saw the interest based lottery email and applied but we didn't get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like I missed something. We didn't get any emails (or maybe I missed reading it) about criteria based magnets. I just went online to check but am still not clear. Do you have to apply for this or the school automatically does this for you? My kid is in GT and meets the requirements I see online - A's in Math and Science, 97th percentile (so above the 85th minimum).

If we had to do it ourselves I am going to beat myself over this for years to come. I saw the interest based lottery email and applied but we didn't get in.

You didn't do anything wrong. It's an automatic process, and there's not even some sort of opt out that you could have accidentally clicked.

Did you get anything in the mail today? If not, that's okay. If you didn't get anything in the mail and you didn't get an email, sounds like your kid didn't get lucky in the first round of the lottery. There will obviously be kids who turned down a spot, either because of distance or because of interest or because they somehow lucked out and got a spot in both programs.

But the important part for now is that you didn't screw up. Your kid may be just didn't get lucky this cycle, and might get lucky soon.

[Anonymous]

Can you all share the stats for your kids if they are offered a spot? Thanks

[Anonymous]

I know very few (including me) will be lucky enough to be in this position but...

If you are eligible for both, and accept a position in one, does that automatically withdraw you from the waitlist for the other? Just thinking if your kid has a clear inclination towards one, but gets into the other, should you accept the one that you got into originally? Or hold out to see if you get a spot in the one that may be a better fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like I missed something. We didn't get any emails (or maybe I missed reading it) about criteria based magnets. I just went online to check but am still not clear. Do you have to apply for this or the school automatically does this for you? My kid is in GT and meets the requirements I see online - A's in Math and Science, 97th percentile (so above the 85th minimum).

If we had to do it ourselves I am going to beat myself over this for years to come. I saw the interest based lottery email and applied but we didn't get in.

Your kid would have been considered automatically. If you haven’t got an email he wasn’t offered a place initially. You’ll get the notification soon (mail and ParentVue) to tell you if he was in the pool. If in the pool for Eastern it moves a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know very few (including me) will be lucky enough to be in this position but...

If you are eligible for both, and accept a position in one, does that automatically withdraw you from the waitlist for the other? Just thinking if your kid has a clear inclination towards one, but gets into the other, should you accept the one that you got into originally? Or hold out to see if you get a spot in the one that may be a better fit.

No. My kid got in to TPMS last Jan but waitlisted for Eastern. In July he was offered a space at Eastern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know very few (including me) will be lucky enough to be in this position but...

If you are eligible for both, and accept a position in one, does that automatically withdraw you from the waitlist for the other? Just thinking if your kid has a clear inclination towards one, but gets into the other, should you accept the one that you got into originally? Or hold out to see if you get a spot in the one that may be a better fit.

No. My kid got in to TPMS last Jan but waitlisted for Eastern. In July he was offered a space at Eastern.

Also, I should add that quite a lot of families seemed to be in this position last year. A significant number seemed to be offered both off the bat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know very few (including me) will be lucky enough to be in this position but...

If you are eligible for both, and accept a position in one, does that automatically withdraw you from the waitlist for the other? Just thinking if your kid has a clear inclination towards one, but gets into the other, should you accept the one that you got into originally? Or hold out to see if you get a spot in the one that may be a better fit.

No. My kid got in to TPMS last Jan but waitlisted for Eastern. In July he was offered a space at Eastern.

Also, I should add that quite a lot of families seemed to be in this position last year. A significant number seemed to be offered both off the bat.

That's odd because it's a lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you all share the stats for your kids if they are offered a spot? Thanks

Sure. Let me know if I leave anything out. My kid has been offered a spot at Takoma Park.
-We live in the crappy part of the county
-Straight A's since kindergarten.
Here are the MAP-M scores:
FA23-24 5 225-228-231 8 10 85-89-93
SP22-23 4 232-235-238 92-94-96
WI22-23 4 224-227-230 89-92-95
FA22-23 4 217-220-223 14 11 89-92-95
SP21-22 3 211-214-217 76-82-87
WI21-22 3 209-212-215 83-88-92
FA21-22 3 203-206-209 5 12 86-90-94
SP20-21 2 205-208-211 88-92-95
WI20-21 2 207-210-213 96-98-99
FA20-21 2 198-201-204 16 12 96-98-99
WI19-20 1 194-197-200 97-98-99
FA19-20 1 182-185-188 22 18 96-98-99
SP18-19 K 180-183-186 97-98-99
WI18-19 K 173-176-179 97-98-99
FA18-19 K 160-163-166 95-97-98

[Anonymous]

The results for the Grade 5 central review and lottery for Regional /Countywide Middle School (criteria-based) programs (Takoma Park, Eastern, King, Clemente) were mailed to homes the week of January 16, 2024. A copy of the results letter can also be found in your ParentVUE account by January 26, 2024.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know very few (including me) will be lucky enough to be in this position but...

If you are eligible for both, and accept a position in one, does that automatically withdraw you from the waitlist for the other? Just thinking if your kid has a clear inclination towards one, but gets into the other, should you accept the one that you got into originally? Or hold out to see if you get a spot in the one that may be a better fit.

No. My kid got in to TPMS last Jan but waitlisted for Eastern. In July he was offered a space at Eastern.

Also, I should add that quite a lot of families seemed to be in this position last year. A significant number seemed to be offered both off the bat.

That's odd because it's a lottery.

It is but they went way through the waitlist at eastern and had trouble filling spots. That doesn’t explain why some families got two offers up front though.

[Anonymous]

Thank you to the PPs for posting that I didn't have to do anything. I would have gotten an anxiety attack (or maybe already did after seeing this thread lol). Since we didn't get any notification if we were even in the lottery I went and appealed. Not sure if that will matter. Deadline is 2/2/24.

[Anonymous]

We received our acceptance email for TPMS magnet this morning. DS's grades are good, but we were not expecting a spot since its a lottery and very competitive. TPMS is our zone school, so that that probably helped. Excited to hear such great things about the school on this board and the community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know very few (including me) will be lucky enough to be in this position but...

If you are eligible for both, and accept a position in one, does that automatically withdraw you from the waitlist for the other? Just thinking if your kid has a clear inclination towards one, but gets into the other, should you accept the one that you got into originally? Or hold out to see if you get a spot in the one that may be a better fit.

No. My kid got in to TPMS last Jan but waitlisted for Eastern. In July he was offered a space at Eastern.

We were specifically told we would be taken out of the pool for one if we accepted the other. I wonder if your experience was due to the trouble they had filling spots at Eastern last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know very few (including me) will be lucky enough to be in this position but...

If you are eligible for both, and accept a position in one, does that automatically withdraw you from the waitlist for the other? Just thinking if your kid has a clear inclination towards one, but gets into the other, should you accept the one that you got into originally? Or hold out to see if you get a spot in the one that may be a better fit.

No. My kid got in to TPMS last Jan but waitlisted for Eastern. In July he was offered a space at Eastern.

We were specifically told we would be taken out of the pool for one if we accepted the other. I wonder if your experience was due to the trouble they had filling spots at Eastern last year.

I was told that the same things several years ago, and it turned out to be not true. I had explicitly called DCCAP to ask the question and was told my child would be removed from the wait list if I accepted one of the programs. I just decided to take the bird in the hand even though it wasn't the program my child was the most excited about. Later, they were accepted off the wait list at their preferred program and I gave up the original spot.