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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the reputation of Silver Spring International Middle School? It also has an IB program. [/quote]

Good reputation, certainly a rising school for IB Middle Years. There's no Chinese track there, but the Spanish and French immersion programs seem strong.

SSI is unusual in MoCo in that it tracks academically, without being a test-in program for the highly gifted (like the Eastern MS humanities program and Takoma Park math program).  For example, it's very hard to find upper level English classes in open access MS programs in MoCo, but the school offers them.

However, the public HS situation after SSI is a concern. Kids either move on to IBD studies at Albert Einstein (open access, mostly Latino school, probably no stronger than DCI will be) or ditch IB and go on to Blair Montgomery.  Blair probably isn't worth it unless a kid tests into one of the two super duper magnets admitting 10% of 8th graders.  Downcounty Consortium 8th graders can also try to test into the super duper IBD program way over in Rockville at Richard Montgomery (long commute, 10% admitted, preference given to Mandarin track applicants).

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I wouldn't move to Silver Spring for this.

For a 2 year old school it is quite strong and promising, arguably more so than Latin or Basis at that stage.  I know plenty of higher SES families who are extremely interested in the school's progress and hopeful that it will work out for our DCs.  None of us are talking about moving to the suburbs at this stage (and even if we were, it wouldn't be for that!)[/quote]

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