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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's true that 50% of the HGC get into the magnet.  [b]If that were true, then about 25 kids would get into the middle school magnets from one school, and that seems too high given that the incoming class is only 100.  That would mean that a quarter of the incoming class came from one HGC. [/b] That's way too high.

When you add Takoma and Eastern together, probably somewhere between 10-12 get in from the CCES HGC and fewer decide to go.  In our year from CCES  HGC, I can think of 6 students who were accepted at Eastern and 5 who chose to go.  I think the number who chose to go to Takoma was higher.

If you are at CCES, a big unknown if you are in the BCC cluster (and you must be either at BCC or Whitman to attend CCES) is the building of a new middle school. If your kids are rising 4th graders, then this will not be an issue as the new middle school will not be built yet.  But, at some point a cohort of kids at the HGC will get caught in the tangle of starting at Westland and then being shifted to the new middle school.  For future kids in this position, it is possible to plead hardship and stay at CCES for 6th grade if the new pattern of schools would require a new school jump for only one year.  [/quote]

No.  It would mean about 25 kids get into the magnets from one school, and the incoming classes (for both magnets) = 225 students.  (Eastern takes 100, TP takes 125 - 25 of those slots are reserved for in-boundary magnet applicants.)  That's a much smaller percentage than a quarter of the incoming classes.

I suspect that the HGC students at the eastern end of MoCo are more likely to enroll in magnets than the ones at the western end, because the middle schools at the eastern end are more spotty in terms of quality than those at the western end.  In our particular situation (two HGC kids, both went on to magnets), we were extremely invested in sending them to magnets because we would not send them to our home MS - in fact, our backup plan was private school.  My brother, on the other hand, has kids in a W cluster and his HGC son didn't even apply to MS magnets because they are happy with their home middle school.[/quote]

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