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Magnets are purposefully based in not wealthy neighborhoods, to revive the community and bring some diversity.

If you want to have your kid bused to a non-academic magnet like Loiderman, they'd better be really enthusiastic and come from worse schools. Because the kids in those magnets won't be smarter, and the systemic causes of behavioral and academic issues won't disappear.

Academically-selective magnets are something else entirely, even since Covid helped MCPS do away with a selection based purely on academic achievement. Now a broad swathe of top students are selected to be in-pool, then kids are chosen out of that hat, which sadly means that truly gifted students can be shut out and relegated to their home school. Aside from that unfairness, those magnet schools usually have fewer behavioral problems, and the cohort is relatively tight-knit.

Honestly, traffic being so bad, I'd rather my kid stay in their home school and pay for enrichment (private music lessons and MCYO youth orchestra in my child's case). But that's because I can pay for that, and the home school is good. Your calculus will vary.
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