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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While my child was at HGC at Pine Crest at least 3 local kids were used to fill spots for the 5th grade year.

At Eastern, at least 3 local students were used to fill spots at the last minute.

This was 3-4years ago.[/quote]

Currently, Pine Crest CES 5th grade has 10 local students who feed to Eastern and are eligible for local magnet spots (it's usually 8-10 per year).  Theoretically, that makes them the top 10 local humanities students coming out of Pine Crest, as they were invited out of the general population based on being the top, rather than as local outliers at the top as their out-of-boundary classmates were.  We saw 3 Pine Crest local students at the invited magnet student open house last week, but it's possible others didn't make it that night, were waitlisted, or may be invited later based on available space.

(We have no idea what the numbers at Oak View ES are, but that school also feeds to Eastern MS.)

We had been told that there are typically 10 Eastern magnet spaces for local students, but it's unclear whether that's a true carve-out like the 25 at TPMS, or they end up with that many unclaimed spots at the end of August.[/quote]

I'm curious about your source for all this information. I'm a home school Pine Crest and Eastern parent and have NEVER heard that there is any kind of local carve out. In fact, the line has always been that Eastern students compete for the same 100 spots as everyone else in this half of the county. Who is telling you that there are "typically 10 Eastern magnet spaces for local students" and how do you know how many students are "eligible" for spots. Are you assuming that it's only kids in the PCES CES that are eligible? I can tell you that at least two rising students from the home school PCES population were offered Eastern magnet spots. It would be nice if Eastern students got some sort of carve out like the Takoma Park kids but if this is happening it is a new thing. [/quote]

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