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No, actually she skipped AIM and went straight to Algebra 1. Now in Honors Geo in 7th. Acceleration like this is made for kids who catch on quickly and don't need the same thing repeated for weeks on end. What MCPS accelerated classes do NOT do, is go more in-depth, which is a shame. You need to get lucky and snag a spot in the TPMS STEM magnet middle school for that, and continue on to the high school STEM magnets.
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I've been told that's usually only an option at a few wealthy schools in the county. [/quote]

NO, this myth has been debunked many times on DCUM (there was a massive thread about it just recently) and trolls still like to repeat that lie just to rile people up against wealthy school clusters.

I had to fight Westland MS in Bethesda to get my kid into Algebra 1 in 6th. Another parent upcounty in a less privileged area told me their middle school was happy to accelerate their kid to the same level, because they had less demand, and were generally more excited to see kids want to stretch themselves. Schools in the BCC cluster try hard to push back against parental pressure to accelerate their kids, I think, and sometimes that works against truly interested students who want and need that acceleration. I don't know about Whitman and Walter Johnson clusters, or Churchill, also in wealthy areas.

Please don't perpetuate damaging lies.

To answer the other question, you need to request a placement test to get into Algebra 1 in 6th. Just like if your kid is bilingual or near-bilingual in a foreign language and the school tests them to place them in the right level. 
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