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[quote=Anonymous]Like Kennedy, Springbrook has had a regional IB program for a while. Until four years ago, it was a two-year program for 11th and 12th grade taken by anyone at the school who wanted it. The two-year-program adheres to an international standard

Four years ago they changed the IB offering at several schools including Springbrook to be a competitive, application-based program that follows the same curriculum offered by RMIB. While students are still free to join the program in 11th grade (also true at RMIB), there is now a cohorted class of 50-100 kids (I don't know the official number, my regional IB has about 50, from the first year of the program), who take all of their classes together except gym, health, tech, and electives.

It's been a fantastic school within a school experience for our kid.

A "whole school" IB program would I guess mean everyone at the school took the IB program. I think schools in VA and Baltimore offer this, not Moco.

The regional IBs are a lot less competitive to get into than RMIB, due to the newness of the program and some peoples' reservations about the outcomes or the schools. Our experience has been quite positive and college acceptances have been fantastic.

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