Are Immersion kids permitted to (automatically) attend HS outside their zone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. Is the PP saying there is a preference for Takoma Park residents for the Takoma MS magnet, or the elementary magnet? Because I've heard such a thing with regards to the elementary magnet, but never the middle school magnet program. Is this indeed true?

Also, as for OP's original question, for the DCC language immersion programs in French and Spanish, the kids can continue on to SSIMS regardless of their home school to continue receiving partial immersion instruction, but there is no preference that I'm aware of for high school.

Yes, approx 20-25 seats are reserved in the TPMS magnet program for in-boundary students. That is in addition to the 100 spots for everyone else. So the actual magnet class size is 120-125. Guess it's good to live in Takoma Park.

Or Silver Spring.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/TakomaParkMS.pdf

"Approximately 20-25 seats" are reserved? So out of the approximately 180 (at Piney Branch) + 70 (at East Silver Spring) students per grade, 8-10% go to the TPMS magnet program? (And presumably an ever higher percentage get accepted, because presumably some students are accepted but don't go. Not to mention the question of whether all TPMS-zoned students get accepted separately, or whether some get accepted in general admissions and then the rest in TPMS-zoned admissions.) Is that what you're saying?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For example, can a Immersion kid from say, SSIMS or Westland, feed to BCC or even RM with simply a COSA?

Thanks in advance!

MCPS has a policy of feeder schools. Westland feeds into B-CC, so if you are in Westland in 8th grade, you automatically "feed" to B-CC.
SSIMS does not have any automatic feeders as it is part of DownCounty Consortium.
Hoover MS "feeds" into Churchill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. Is the PP saying there is a preference for Takoma Park residents for the Takoma MS magnet, or the elementary magnet? Because I've heard such a thing with regards to the elementary magnet, but never the middle school magnet program. Is this indeed true?

Also, as for OP's original question, for the DCC language immersion programs in French and Spanish, the kids can continue on to SSIMS regardless of their home school to continue receiving partial immersion instruction, but there is no preference that I'm aware of for high school.

Yes, approx 20-25 seats are reserved in the TPMS magnet program for in-boundary students. That is in addition to the 100 spots for everyone else. So the actual magnet class size is 120-125. Guess it's good to live in Takoma Park.

Or Silver Spring.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/TakomaParkMS.pdf

"Approximately 20-25 seats" are reserved? So out of the approximately 180 (at Piney Branch) + 70 (at East Silver Spring) students per grade, 8-10% go to the TPMS magnet program? (And presumably an ever higher percentage get accepted, because presumably some students are accepted but don't go. Not to mention the question of whether all TPMS-zoned students get accepted separately, or whether some get accepted in general admissions and then the rest in TPMS-zoned admissions.) Is that what you're saying?

Of course you are correct to include the kids from ESS.

I have no idea how they get to their number. I suspect there's not a mandate that they MUST fill 120 seats, but rather they have the flexibility to do so to accommodate qualified in-boundary kids. In other words, I doubt it's a situation where they keep two separate pools. But honestly, I don't really know how it's done. Those are questions better directed to the magnet coordinator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused. Is the PP saying there is a preference for Takoma Park residents for the Takoma MS magnet, or the elementary magnet? Because I've heard such a thing with regards to the elementary magnet, but never the middle school magnet program. Is this indeed true?

Also, as for OP's original question, for the DCC language immersion programs in French and Spanish, the kids can continue on to SSIMS regardless of their home school to continue receiving partial immersion instruction, but there is no preference that I'm aware of for high school.

Yes, approx 20-25 seats are reserved in the TPMS magnet program for in-boundary students. That is in addition to the 100 spots for everyone else. So the actual magnet class size is 120-125. Guess it's good to live in Takoma Park.

Or Silver Spring.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/TakomaParkMS.pdf

"Approximately 20-25 seats" are reserved? So out of the approximately 180 (at Piney Branch) + 70 (at East Silver Spring) students per grade, 8-10% go to the TPMS magnet program? (And presumably an ever higher percentage get accepted, because presumably some students are accepted but don't go. Not to mention the question of whether all TPMS-zoned students get accepted separately, or whether some get accepted in general admissions and then the rest in TPMS-zoned admissions.) Is that what you're saying?

Of course you are correct to include the kids from ESS.

I have no idea how they get to their number. I suspect there's not a mandate that they MUST fill 120 seats, but rather they have the flexibility to do so to accommodate qualified in-boundary kids. In other words, I doubt it's a situation where they keep two separate pools. But honestly, I don't really know how it's done. Those are questions better directed to the magnet coordinator.

Of course it's not just kids in these schools. It's the in-boundary kids who go to the Oakview/Pine Crest HGCs. In fact, that's probably where most of the kids come from. Also, there are surely a few in privates. So it's wrong to assume it's just PBES and ESS kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For example, can a Immersion kid from say, SSIMS or Westland, feed to BCC or even RM with simply a COSA?

Thanks in advance!

MCPS has a policy of feeder schools. Westland feeds into B-CC, so if you are in Westland in 8th grade, you automatically "feed" to B-CC.
SSIMS does not have any automatic feeders as it is part of DownCounty Consortium.
Hoover MS "feeds" into Churchill.

Wait, so it's not just that RCF kids get to go to BCC, which is what everyone implies on DCUM. RCF kids get to go to BCC only IF they continue immersion at Westland. And Potomac/College Gardens Chinese immersion students get to stay at Churchill if they continue immersion at Hoover. Kids who continue immersion at SSIMS (French or Spanish) can stay in the DCC (through the second round of the DCC lottery). Presumably there is a similar feeder pattern for French immersion kids at Maryvale then Gaithersburg middle.

People on DCUM seem to think that the only preference is for RCF kids, but really all immersion kids have some high school preference. Just because BCC is viewed as the "most desirable" high school by some, then it's the only one that gets flack for it. (FTR, my kid is not at RCF, so I don't really have a dog in this fight.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Or Silver Spring.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/TakomaParkMS.pdf

"Approximately 20-25 seats" are reserved? So out of the approximately 180 (at Piney Branch) + 70 (at East Silver Spring) students per grade, 8-10% go to the TPMS magnet program? (And presumably an ever higher percentage get accepted, because presumably some students are accepted but don't go. Not to mention the question of whether all TPMS-zoned students get accepted separately, or whether some get accepted in general admissions and then the rest in TPMS-zoned admissions.) Is that what you're saying?

Of course you are correct to include the kids from ESS.

I have no idea how they get to their number. I suspect there's not a mandate that they MUST fill 120 seats, but rather they have the flexibility to do so to accommodate qualified in-boundary kids. In other words, I doubt it's a situation where they keep two separate pools. But honestly, I don't really know how it's done. Those are questions better directed to the magnet coordinator.

Of course it's not just kids in these schools. It's the in-boundary kids who go to the Oakview/Pine Crest HGCs. In fact, that's probably where most of the kids come from. Also, there are surely a few in privates. So it's wrong to assume it's just PBES and ESS kids.

The Oakview/Pine Crest HGC serves the Blair, Einstein, Kennedy, and Northwood Clusters. What percentage of students at the Oakview/Pine Crest HGC are from East Silver Spring ES and Piney Branch ES?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For example, can a Immersion kid from say, SSIMS or Westland, feed to BCC or even RM with simply a COSA?

Thanks in advance!

MCPS has a policy of feeder schools. Westland feeds into B-CC, so if you are in Westland in 8th grade, you automatically "feed" to B-CC.
SSIMS does not have any automatic feeders as it is part of DownCounty Consortium.
Hoover MS "feeds" into Churchill.

Wait, so it's not just that RCF kids get to go to BCC, which is what everyone implies on DCUM. RCF kids get to go to BCC only IF they continue immersion at Westland. And Potomac/College Gardens Chinese immersion students get to stay at Churchill if they continue immersion at Hoover. Kids who continue immersion at SSIMS (French or Spanish) can stay in the DCC (through the second round of the DCC lottery). Presumably there is a similar feeder pattern for French immersion kids at Maryvale then Gaithersburg middle.

People on DCUM seem to think that the only preference is for RCF kids, but really all immersion kids have some high school preference. Just because BCC is viewed as the "most desirable" high school by some, then it's the only one that gets flack for it. (FTR, my kid is not at RCF, so I don't really have a dog in this fight.)

Yep. it is not a special preference for Westland but hard to convince some of that

[Anonymous]

There's no immersion program at BCC so how can you continue the program?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Or Silver Spring.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/TakomaParkMS.pdf

"Approximately 20-25 seats" are reserved? So out of the approximately 180 (at Piney Branch) + 70 (at East Silver Spring) students per grade, 8-10% go to the TPMS magnet program? (And presumably an ever higher percentage get accepted, because presumably some students are accepted but don't go. Not to mention the question of whether all TPMS-zoned students get accepted separately, or whether some get accepted in general admissions and then the rest in TPMS-zoned admissions.) Is that what you're saying?

Of course you are correct to include the kids from ESS.

I have no idea how they get to their number. I suspect there's not a mandate that they MUST fill 120 seats, but rather they have the flexibility to do so to accommodate qualified in-boundary kids. In other words, I doubt it's a situation where they keep two separate pools. But honestly, I don't really know how it's done. Those are questions better directed to the magnet coordinator.

Of course it's not just kids in these schools. It's the in-boundary kids who go to the Oakview/Pine Crest HGCs. In fact, that's probably where most of the kids come from. Also, there are surely a few in privates. So it's wrong to assume it's just PBES and ESS kids.

The Oakview/Pine Crest HGC serves the Blair, Einstein, Kennedy, and Northwood Clusters. What percentage of students at the Oakview/Pine Crest HGC are from East Silver Spring ES and Piney Branch ES?

I don't know the statistics, but TPES has the "gifted magnet" ES on this side of the county, so about 10-15 OOB kids get into that program and have automatic rollover into PBES. This means PBES probably feeds more kids into the HGC than average.

What I don't know is what happens to the "gifted magnet" kids who finish at PBES. Do they have feeder rights to TPMS or do they go back to their home MS?

Oh, and I'm the PP who is IB for TPMS but doesn't really care much about the set-aside because my own personal kids would be a terrible fit for the STEM magnet. They would be a much better fit for an arts magnet if there were a MS portfolio/test-based magnet program. So, my own preference would be for each of the magnet MS programs to have some sort of set-aside, but also for each of the MSs to have something special.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's no immersion program at BCC so how can you continue the program?

You don't the COSA is given because the kid spent their entire ES and MS in the cluster.