Best HS Math Magnet Program

[Anonymous]

Here is Poolesville's:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/poolesvillehs/about/PHS%20Profile%2019-20.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is Poolesville's:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/poolesvillehs/about/PHS%20Profile%2019-20.pdf

This is the whole school not the SMAC magnet.

[Anonymous]

OP you should buy/rent in Wootton and then apply to Blair. You could do this at Churchill too but I've heard that Churchill is not as math focused. Wootton is the largest feeder cluster to Blair SMAC. Wootton kids don't seem to be afraid to travel to Blair like Churchill kids so if he gets in he'll have peers from Wootton.

There is preferential admission to the middle school magnet but at least so far the high school magnet is still merit based. You'd have an equal chance getting in from any eligible school. If this changes then you want to be in the very worst cluster - Kennedy, Wheaton, Einstein, Gaithersburg High School etc where you would have very little competition.

[Anonymous]

OP- appreciate everyone's help - the profile links are great and the last poster's comment about Wooton is much appreciated. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you should buy/rent in Wootton and then apply to Blair. You could do this at Churchill too but I've heard that Churchill is not as math focused. Wootton is the largest feeder cluster to Blair SMAC. Wootton kids don't seem to be afraid to travel to Blair like Churchill kids so if he gets in he'll have peers from Wootton.

There is preferential admission to the middle school magnet but at least so far the high school magnet is still merit based. You'd have an equal chance getting in from any eligible school. If this changes then you want to be in the very worst cluster - Kennedy, Wheaton, Einstein, Gaithersburg High School etc where you would have very little competition.

PP, your info is a little out-of-date. The high school magnet is changing this year. Peer-cohort will be considered in admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you should buy/rent in Wootton and then apply to Blair. You could do this at Churchill too but I've heard that Churchill is not as math focused. Wootton is the largest feeder cluster to Blair SMAC. Wootton kids don't seem to be afraid to travel to Blair like Churchill kids so if he gets in he'll have peers from Wootton.

There is preferential admission to the middle school magnet but at least so far the high school magnet is still merit based. You'd have an equal chance getting in from any eligible school. If this changes then you want to be in the very worst cluster - Kennedy, Wheaton, Einstein, Gaithersburg High School etc where you would have very little competition.

PP, your info is a little out-of-date. The high school magnet is changing this year. Peer-cohort will be considered in admission.

Do you have a linK for that? It has come up on DCUM before and the only thing people have found is that there will be universal screening and they are expanding the number of IB magnet seats. Unless you can provide a link, please do not spread rumors.

[Anonymous]

What is the point of a magnet if only local kids go? The whole point of the program is to get smart kids from the better parts of town to self desegregate to boost the host school’s local reputation & test scores. Just pandering the the few smart local kids changes noting and just wastes the money the program costs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of a magnet if only local kids go? The whole point of the program is to get smart kids from the better parts of town to self desegregate to boost the host school’s local reputation & test scores. Just pandering the the few smart local kids changes noting and just wastes the money the program costs

Well MCPS thinks that didn’t work since magnet programs resulted in full of Asian/white kids. Using the new process (i.e., cohort approach) will ensure more acceptable mix of students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of a magnet if only local kids go? The whole point of the program is to get smart kids from the better parts of town to self desegregate to boost the host school’s local reputation & test scores. Just pandering the the few smart local kids changes noting and just wastes the money the program costs

Well MCPS thinks that didn’t work since magnet programs resulted in full of Asian/white kids. Using the new process (i.e., cohort approach) will ensure more acceptable mix of students.

That was the intended mix all along. Importing black and Hispanic kids to black and Hispanic areas doesn’t help much with desegregation. The programs were intended to be so irresistible to upper middle class families that they would opt into schools they would never otherwise live IB for. By raising the rep of the local school the hope was to prevent white flight of the remaining IB families.

There is a reason there are no magnet schools in Bethesda or Potomac. But what happened with the carrot approach is local poor minorities were left to wonder why they never got carrots (groups that don’t typically garner recruitment initiatives outside of sports) . Can’t win for losing sometimes

[Anonymous]

But before we debate that...lets see evidence that they are using the cohort idea on the hs level. There is none. No need for debate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But before we debate that...lets see evidence that they are using the cohort idea on the hs level. There is none. No need for debate.

Even if they aren’t it is only a matter of time before the lower magnets are filled with lesser students and the higher level’s pool of applicants is watered down and the shinny gone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But before we debate that...lets see evidence that they are using the cohort idea on the hs level. There is none. No need for debate.

Debate what? The fact that magnets are a desegregation tool designed to head off white flight? That isn’t up for debate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But before we debate that...lets see evidence that they are using the cohort idea on the hs level. There is none. No need for debate.

Even if they aren’t it is only a matter of time before the lower magnets are filled with lesser students and the higher level’s pool of applicants is watered down and the shinny gone

Lots of kids at Blair/RM/Poolesville do not even attend middle school magnets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But before we debate that...lets see evidence that they are using the cohort idea on the hs level. There is none. No need for debate.

Debate what? The fact that magnets are a desegregation tool designed to head off white flight? That isn’t up for debate

I believe what the poster said is that we shouldn’t yet debate that there are new, cohort-based admission practices to the magnets this year, because that is just a DCUM rumor based on recent changes in middle school magnet admission procedures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But before we debate that...lets see evidence that they are using the cohort idea on the hs level. There is none. No need for debate.

Debate what? The fact that magnets are a desegregation tool designed to head off white flight? That isn’t up for debate

I believe what the poster said is that we shouldn’t yet debate that there are new, cohort-based admission practices to the magnets this year, because that is just a DCUM rumor based on recent changes in middle school magnet admission procedures.