Did anyone from Westland/Cabin John/N. Bethesda/Frost/Pyle/Hoover get in to MS magnets last year?
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Anonymous
| If so would you mind sharing scores or other information? |
Anonymous
| Why aren't you asking about Tilden? |
Anonymous
The question itself is absurd. All of those schools are MS already. |
Anonymous
| NP. I don’t have the information, but I hope someone answers this question. I’m DCC but am curious too. |
Anonymous
Not worth the commute bus time, car pools not so great either. |
Anonymous
| There were long threads about this, last year, with some information shared. They were many pages long. I'd do a google search to see if you can pull it up. |
Anonymous
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The question to the thread title is YES. There was no middle school that is "in bounds" for the magnet and had zero kids represented.
What numbers it took to get in if your home MS was Pyle? I don't know. But I can tell you those numbers will look really different from Westland, based on the numbers published by MCPS. Pyle led the pack in terms of "highly able" students, but Westland lagged significantly, particularly given the homogenous and hyper-privileged nature of the student body. |
Anonymous
I think those schools listed are the ones that are likely to be in the top SES band for local norming. Tilden has a slightly higher FARMS rate, although who knows how they grouped the schools since MCPS is not saying. |
Anonymous
Numbers or you're making it up. Also, Westland is not as homogeneous as you think, and definitely not has much as Pyle. |
Anonymous
I think this is right. For the CESes MCPS said it went back and made sure in the final round to include representation from all schools even if only 2 students. |
Anonymous
Not PP but https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf |
Anonymous
| What's strange is other than 4 middle schools that have less than 20 "highly able" kids in at least one category every other one has a peer group. So why is peer group even an issue? |
Anonymous
They’re looking for outliers. So in this pool of highly able kids, if there are 45 in the 99.0 %ile and 2 kids in the 99.99th %ile, those two kids don’t really have a home school peer group. I’m also not sure what real info comes from that chart. Those are the kids who were seriously considered from each school, and what put them into consideration. Many kids were probably in consideration based on every one of those measures. But it still doesn’t show who was selected or why. Or am I misunderstanding? |
Anonymous
I'm PP and that's the chart I was thinking of. Note that this isn't really about Westland, since this data is about incoming 6th graders. It's more about the sending elementary schools, but the data is clumped like this for ease of comparison. Even considering that Westland is smaller, the numbers are more analagous to a solid Silver Spring middle school than to the other Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac middle schools. The only reason it is worth pointing out is because OP is basically asking "How did the rich kid schools do?" and the answer is "Depends on the rich kid school." |
Anonymous
I think the chart is meant to show that there is talent and promise all over the county. You are of course right, though, that is is showing the 99th (or maybe even something like >97th) percentiles and not the 99.9th. But it was put out by MCPS at a time when a lot of folks seem to be publicly aghast at the idea that there might be bright and underchallenged kids who would benefit from the magnet at even the most high needs schools. |