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[quote=Anonymous]In MoCo, you can apply for the middle school magnets early in the 5th grade and the high school magnets early in 8th grade.
There are lots of kids like your child in the MoCo gifted programs but the programs are definitely for children who are not just gifted but also high achieving.  They are expected to work very hard and there is also a focus on group work which means they develop their social and interpersonal skills.  A student who is intellectually advanced but still needs time to mature emotionally etc. might have a tough time adjusting to the environment.  
At the same time the kids are very kind to each other and supportive of each other so that is nice.  It can really be a haven for gifted kids as a PP pointed out.

There is no real differentiation except with the big projects*.  For example in 7th grade, students in the Eastern Humanities Middle school magnet write a 10 page research paper and they are allowed considerable latitude to pick a topic that interests them.  In 8th grade in the same program, they do an individual "passion" project.  My child wrote a 75 page story, others made movies or documentaries.  In the Blair Science magnet, students spend a semester developing a research project, spend two months during the summer working full time on the project and spend an additional semester writing up their results etc.

*There is some differentiation in Math.  At Blair Magnet around 20% of the 9th grade class is studying calculus and they can then move onto multivariable calculus, linear algebra etc.  
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