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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have any stats at hand, but there are certainly a huge number of Montgomery County residents who don't live in an incorporated town/city.

Silver Spring, for example, is a huge, amorphous entity without any legally defined boundaries or local governmental institutions outside of what the county provides. You'd either have to set up a municipal government just to collect taxes to fund the schools (which I can't see happening any time soon), or retain MCPS to serve anyone who didn't live in an incorporated city. The area I grew up in was like that, with a county system to serve everyone in the rural areas and smaller towns, plus a city system for the one large city. But it was a given that none of the other small towns could raise enough funds for their own school systems and have any hope of serving students properly.

So I'm wondering: how many non-Silver Spring students there are who also live in an area of MoCo without an additional municipal government? If anyone in a "town" split off into their own individual school system, who would be left? Would it end up being Silver Spring plus some stray pockets here and there throughout the county, or are there more unincorporated areas in MoCo than I realize? [/quote]

Most of Montgomery County is unincorporated. Here are the incorporated municipalities:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dps/municipalities.html

Most of them are teeny-weeny. Imagine the Town of Oakmont with its own school system. 
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I’m from a state with town based school systems and that’s really not how it works...many school systems draw from an incorporated town and then a few unincorporated areas that surround it.[/quote]

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