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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do many of the children in the surrounding neighborhood(s) attend other schools? I've always wondered why the school has the reputation that it does, as it is not located in an economically depressed neighborhood. [/quote]

It's a Jewish neighborhood, fairly Orthodox, and therefore has a high percentage of kids in religious schools. This is the main reason.

In our actual experience with the school, the reputation was undeserved. Odessa taught my family that Great Schools and FARMS rates are not reasons to reject a school. If you are uncomfortable with immigrant families, or people who are socially not like you, or culturally different, it may not be the school for you. But those families also value education. Also have highly intelligent children. Also want them to succeed. [/quote]

OP here.  Do you know how many students [i]actually[/i] succeed, which I consider to be getting into the competitive magnets, like Blair SMCS, Blair CAP, RMIB, and the Wheaton STEM magnets?

I completely ignore the other commenters talking about why they [i]avoided[/i] the school.  They have no actual experience and acted/speak based on a reputation, not real outcomes.  There has been a shift since 2018 when the magnets started universal screening, and admitting "outliers" in 2019 and 2020, and then admitting by lottery in 2021 and 2022.  That's why I asked about [b]recent[/b] [b][u]experience[/u][/b] not rumors and reputation.  Many of the top students were left out of the magnets, and not all can afford or want to attend a private school.  Private schools around here are generally having many more applicants because of the changes in magnet admissions.  At least one school we applied to has a waitlist this year (which we are on), and they said they have [u]never[/u] had a waitlist in the past because they have never had so many applicants.

As for diversity and FARMS statistics, that still doesn't tell me anything about the school environment.  My child went to an elementary school with a high FARMS rate (before being in the CES at the same school), and had a wonderful experience and still has friends who are not in the CES, but are very bright and were not accepted into the CES under the "outlier" admission system. I know for a fact that my child has several very bright CES classmates who are slated to attend OSMS next year, although he's not sure if any of them might end up at a magnet or attending a private school next year instead.[/quote]

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