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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is a 5th grader at a regional CES.  Her teacher told me that the number of CES kids who got in last year went down to 7 (or close to it?), as compared to 25 the year before that.

Also, at the Magnet meeting, the MCPS representatives very very clearly stated that the Magnet is not for the highest performing students any more.  It is for high performing kids, who attend a MS that does not have many other high performing kids.[/quote]

I think the most important factor is your child's home middle school.  If you look at last year's applicant group, the home middle schools that had the largest number of "qualified" (meaning they did well on the test, had high MAP scores etc) applicants per MCPS were Frost, Hoover, SSIMS, Sligo and Pyle
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf

These students had a terribly difficult time getting into the middle school magnets because of the peer cohort criteria.
The CES schools that had a lot of children zoned for these home middle schools saw huge drops in acceptance rates - I think only a couple got in from Cold Spring CES (which feeds to Frost MS which has the largest number of high achieving kids).  I think Oak View also saw a similar drop off in acceptances.  [/quote]

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