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1. You are right, MCPS does select from geographic location, in that the less-wealthy districts and the cluster neighborhoods have an advantage. This is to counter-balance the reality that public schools in rich districts are better, because families consider education to be more important and have the means to coach and tutor their children. There is a peer cohort effect in these schools.

2. The selection for the magnet programs is EXTREME. Unless you would love to live in Takoma Park no matter what (commute, quality of life, etc), you have to be very sure of what you're doing. On critical thinking tests, this is the equivalent of scoring within the 99th percentile, meaning that if your child scored at the 98th percentile in an elementary InView test, for example, they're probably not going to be selected at the middle school level. Less than half of the students selected for the elementary "magnets" (they're called Centers for Enriched Studies) are selected for the middle school magnets, and these already score in the 98th-99th percentile range on the Cogat test.

I have a 99th percentiler, but since I don't want to live in Takoma Park, I'm not going to risk it. :-)

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