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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mathcounts results 2024 MoCo+PG

Be aware that the difference ranks in the top few teams was about 1% the top score, and the difference between 10th and 50th place was 10% of the top score.

Team + Individual combined scores, ranks:

1. Cabin John (Potomac)
2. Robert Frost (Rockville)
3. Takoma Park (math magnet)
4. Westland (Bethesda)
5. Pyle (Bethesda)
6. Eastern (humanities magnet) (Silver Spring)
7. Hoover (Potomac)
8. North Bethesda 
9. Tilden (North Bethesda)
Schools sending students to State:

11 Takoma Park
10 Cabin John 
5 Robert Frost
5 Pyle
5 Eastern
3 Hoover 
2 Kingsview
1 North Bethesda 
1 Westland
1 Tilden
1 Hallie Wells
1 Wood
1 Redlands
1 Parkland
1 Norwood
(plus a few wildcards or be added later)

Individuals:
1. CJ1 Cabin John 
2. RF1 Robert Frost
3. RF2
4. RF3
5. CJ2
6. TP1
7. TP2
8. CJ3
9. CJ4
10. Pyle1

11 (tie). CJ5 Hoover1
13. RF4
14 (tie). Hoover2 TP3 Pyle2 Westland  CJ5 CJ6
20. Pyle2
20. CJ7
20. CJ8
20. TP4
20. Kingsview1
25 (tie). Norwood RF5 Kingsview2

Congratulations to these incredible students!

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The kids at Cabin John and Robert Frost  who did not win lottery beat the kids at Takoma Park who won lottery.[/quote]

Exactly as intended, and good. Schools with a large local cohort don't need to bus across town to a magnet. More spots for kids around the county who need to cluster together to form a cohort. The magic isn't the courses or teachers (though of course the teachers are great). The secret ingredient is the other kids. [/quote]

Maybe as intended, but far from adequate.  There are spots for what, maybe 20 percent of the pool? And the pool doesn't include anywhere close to all who might benefit from GT programming because of local norming keeping out of the pool a bunch of 90th-95th percentile MAP kids from some schools in the first place?

So you get:

A group with highly enriched course offerings for maybe 10 percent at the magnet

A peer group [i]with much lesser enriched course offerings[/i] in high-performing clusters for maybe another 50 percent, a minority of whom are likely to participate in things like Mathcounts to help make up for the disparity

A scattered 40 percent with those same lesser offerings but not even a sizeable peer group and often not even access to things like Mathcounts.

Bottom line, MCPS has folks focusing on envy about magnet admissions instead of on providing appropriate programming for the GT population, whether at a magnet drawing from the more scattered outliers or locally where a peer group would exist to facilitate logistics of an equivent experience.[/quote]

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