Blair magnet

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

A few years ago I remember this was published and the vast majority were from the DCC. In fact, over 50% came from TPMS which is one of its feeders.

Very funny, but the PP is just also making stuff up. They'd have provided a citation if their info was credible, and although they'd like to believe it's true.

The confusion is that some of the TP Magnet kids are also from Bethesda. My kid was in Blair SMAC. I have no idea what the numbers were but we gave her an awful lot of rides to kids houses in Bethesda.

Just adding we were told that Wootten Cluster was the biggest feeder after TP.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

A few years ago I remember this was published and the vast majority were from the DCC. In fact, over 50% came from TPMS which is one of its feeders.

Very funny, but the PP is just also making stuff up. They'd have provided a citation if their info was credible, and although they'd like to believe it's true.

The confusion is that some of the TP Magnet kids are also from Bethesda. My kid was in Blair SMAC. I have no idea what the numbers were but we gave her an awful lot of rides to kids houses in Bethesda.

The TPMS magnet directory shows 5X as many are zoned to Blair than BCC.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

A few years ago I remember this was published and the vast majority were from the DCC. In fact, over 50% came from TPMS which is one of its feeders.

Very funny, but the PP is just also making stuff up. They'd have provided a citation if their info was credible, and although they'd like to believe it's true.

These can both be true. Kids from the TPMS magnet don’t tend to live in those zip codes.

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Anonymous wrote:1. BCC isn't downcounty consortium.

2. There is a "geographic" criteria for magnet selection, so that MCPS can give an advantage to poorly-performing schools in lower-income districts. So if you're in Bethesda, yes, your child is at a disadvantage, even if you scraped together all you had to afford a rent-controlled apartment there.

At present, there is no expansion of "local norming" to the HS magnet admission process. It does exist at the lower grades, but the impact is negligible at the CES level as those programs are already regional in nature.

So, there's actually no disadvantage to applying for the HS magnet coming from a BCC feeder. If you happened to be a genuinely poor person who had scraped together all you could afford for a rent-controlled apartment in Bethesda, however, you would get special consideration as a person who qualifies for FARMS.

A few years back I remember they announced something like expanding the RM IB program to 3 additional more regional schools that would ultimately replace RM IB at least that's how it sounded. I figured that would likely happen with the STEM magnet too. I mean it isn't local morning exactly but had a similar effect while expanding these programs. Maybe covid delayed this or they changed their minds.

There have been 2 stem magnets for a while. Not saying they could not have more but it is still more than the1 IB magnet.

Well, Poolseville is so far far from most places in the county that most people don't really consider it.

For the people who live in the 9 clusters zoned there it is the only STEM option. The other 16 clusters do not have the option.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

We were told the Wootten cluster had the highest representation in the magnet when my daughter attended. (5 years ago)

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Highschool magnet admissions are shrouded in mystery. They are allowed to consider gender and FARMS when awarding spots.

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Anonymous wrote:Highschool magnet admissions are shrouded in mystery. They are allowed to consider gender and FARMS when awarding spots.

They do that for all programs not just high school.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

We were told the Wootten cluster had the highest representation in the magnet when my daughter attended. (5 years ago)

I'd heard that from a Wootton parent, and there are a few kids from that cluster. However, as a parent who had two kids through the program, which is purely anecdotal, it seemed like Blair itself had the most kids. Maybe because it's the largest HS to begin with, but about half the Blair STEM kids came from TPMS magnet. The TPMS magnet directory lists students by their base HS. While schools like BCC or Wootton may have 15-16 kids at TPMS, Blair has over 90. It is a large geographic area and many of these kids have been in STEM magnets beginning in grade 1.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

We were told the Wootten cluster had the highest representation in the magnet when my daughter attended. (5 years ago)

I'd heard that from a Wootton parent, and there are a few kids from that cluster. However, as a parent who had two kids through the program, which is purely anecdotal, it seemed like Blair itself had the most kids. Maybe because it's the largest HS to begin with, but about half the Blair STEM kids came from TPMS magnet. The TPMS magnet directory lists students by their base HS. While schools like BCC or Wootton may have 15-16 kids at TPMS, Blair has over 90. It is a large geographic area and many of these kids have been in STEM magnets beginning in grade 1.

How surprised is this? TPMS has 25 reserved seats each grade for inbound students, those already add up to 75 seats.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

We were told the Wootten cluster had the highest representation in the magnet when my daughter attended. (5 years ago)

I'd heard that from a Wootton parent, and there are a few kids from that cluster. However, as a parent who had two kids through the program, which is purely anecdotal, it seemed like Blair itself had the most kids. Maybe because it's the largest HS to begin with, but about half the Blair STEM kids came from TPMS magnet. The TPMS magnet directory lists students by their base HS. While schools like BCC or Wootton may have 15-16 kids at TPMS, Blair has over 90. It is a large geographic area and many of these kids have been in STEM magnets beginning in grade 1.

How surprised is this? TPMS has 25 reserved seats each grade for inbound students, those already add up to 75 seats.

Are you sure they still do that? It seemed like the stopped that a couple years back.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

We were told the Wootten cluster had the highest representation in the magnet when my daughter attended. (5 years ago)

I'd heard that from a Wootton parent, and there are a few kids from that cluster. However, as a parent who had two kids through the program, which is purely anecdotal, it seemed like Blair itself had the most kids. Maybe because it's the largest HS to begin with, but about half the Blair STEM kids came from TPMS magnet. The TPMS magnet directory lists students by their base HS. While schools like BCC or Wootton may have 15-16 kids at TPMS, Blair has over 90. It is a large geographic area and many of these kids have been in STEM magnets beginning in grade 1.

How surprised is this? TPMS has 25 reserved seats each grade for inbound students, those already add up to 75 seats.

Are you sure they still do that? It seemed like the stopped that a couple years back.

Yes they do. In case you didn’t understand it’s 25 reserved seats in the magnet at TPMS for kids who would attend TPMS anyway. Not 25 seats at Blair.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

We were told the Wootten cluster had the highest representation in the magnet when my daughter attended. (5 years ago)

I'd heard that from a Wootton parent, and there are a few kids from that cluster. However, as a parent who had two kids through the program, which is purely anecdotal, it seemed like Blair itself had the most kids. Maybe because it's the largest HS to begin with, but about half the Blair STEM kids came from TPMS magnet. The TPMS magnet directory lists students by their base HS. While schools like BCC or Wootton may have 15-16 kids at TPMS, Blair has over 90. It is a large geographic area and many of these kids have been in STEM magnets beginning in grade 1.

There is no way there are 90 kids in the SMAC at Blair from the Blair area. I don't know all DC's classmates but we know of at least 2 dozen friends from places like Rockville, Potomac, Wheaton.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

We were told the Wootten cluster had the highest representation in the magnet when my daughter attended. (5 years ago)

I'd heard that from a Wootton parent, and there are a few kids from that cluster. However, as a parent who had two kids through the program, which is purely anecdotal, it seemed like Blair itself had the most kids. Maybe because it's the largest HS to begin with, but about half the Blair STEM kids came from TPMS magnet. The TPMS magnet directory lists students by their base HS. While schools like BCC or Wootton may have 15-16 kids at TPMS, Blair has over 90. It is a large geographic area and many of these kids have been in STEM magnets beginning in grade 1.

How surprised is this? TPMS has 25 reserved seats each grade for inbound students, those already add up to 75 seats.

Are you sure they still do that? It seemed like the stopped that a couple years back.

Yes they do. In case you didn’t understand it’s 25 reserved seats in the magnet at TPMS for kids who would attend TPMS anyway. Not 25 seats at Blair.

And, to clarify further, the 25 seats are in addition to the allotted magnet allowance (100), nit subtracted from it for TP area kids. That means no out-of-bounds kid loses out to a TP kid on program admission.

Blair does not have this. My kid graduated from magnet last year, and many were from Rockville/Bethesda area. Also, Blair pulls from nonTPMS areas too -- Eastern & SSIMS.

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Anonymous wrote:My child recently started at Blair Magnet. More magnet students come from outside the DCC than from inside the DCC, with the 20854, 20850, and 20878 zip codes most heavily represented. Also, there are more magnet students from the Bethesda zip codes than from the zip codes that comprise Blair's home area (20912, 20901, 20910)

How did you get that data? Did they share zip codes of incoming students?

We were told the Wootten cluster had the highest representation in the magnet when my daughter attended. (5 years ago)

I'd heard that from a Wootton parent, and there are a few kids from that cluster. However, as a parent who had two kids through the program, which is purely anecdotal, it seemed like Blair itself had the most kids. Maybe because it's the largest HS to begin with, but about half the Blair STEM kids came from TPMS magnet. The TPMS magnet directory lists students by their base HS. While schools like BCC or Wootton may have 15-16 kids at TPMS, Blair has over 90. It is a large geographic area and many of these kids have been in STEM magnets beginning in grade 1.

There is no way there are 90 kids in the SMAC at Blair from the Blair area. I don't know all DC's classmates but we know of at least 2 dozen friends from places like Rockville, Potomac, Wheaton.

Pp is talking about TPMS . Across all three years.