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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good morning,
We are contemplating a move to montgomery county and am trying to figure out some of the school choice options. From what I can gather it seems some areas have an advantage in some of the magnet lotteries when it coincides with their boundaries. What are some areas where this is the case? 
Woodside residences zoned to blair aren't more likely to get into the blair magnet than people zoned to other schools, right? but [b]i've read takoma park has some advangtages[/b]. Thanks![/quote]

TPMS students have an advantage getting into the TPMS magnet because there are about 25 out of 125 seats set aside specifically for TPMS students only.  Some think that means that a TPMS student can get into the TPMS magnet with lower scores than those applying from outside TPMS, but there is no hard data publicly available to support this.

I have heard that about half of the TPMS students go on to Blair magnet.  It is assumed that TPMS magnet students have an advantage in getting into Blair magnet only in the sense that TPMS magnet students have had access thru the magnet program to higher and deeper levels of math and science instruction, so people assume that that means that a TPMS magnet student will find it easier to score well on the Blair magnet exam.  Of course, an alternative explanation might be that kids who are naturally good testers will get into TPMS and that same natural testing ability means that they would have also gotten into Blair.  There is no hard data publicly available to know whether there is something about the TPMS magnet program instruction that gives those kids a special knowledge advantage in applying for Blair; it is just an assumption.  [/quote]

I'd also heard about half the TPMS kids end up at Blair Magnet but I think it is partly for two reasons:

1) In the past, kids at TPMS were those who tested high on the CogAT, which was also used for admission to Blair
2) Kids at TPMS were also more inclined to accept an invite to Blair Magnet since they'd already left their home school for a magnet in MS

Although I don't think it's as big a deal as some might think, it does help prepare kids for the HS program. Both my kids went through these programs.[/quote]

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