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[quote=Anonymous]Original poster here.  As far as we can tell, you need to furnish a DC address when you register your kid for DCPS school in the spring, and to file/pay DC income tax for the previous year, but said address doesn't need to stick for the entire academic year if it's your last year in DCPS.

As long as you're using a MoCo address by the fall, when MD kids take the magnet exam(s), you should be fine in those applicant pools.  If your kid strikes out in the magnet applications in the spring, you simply register for a regular middle school program in MoCo at that point.

We just talked to a family whose daughter entered the Eastern magnet (6th grade) using this approach.  In their parent essay, they simply explained that they were transitioning between the school systems, keeping their child in a DCPS school for a final year (5th grade) after having moved to MoCo.

I get the impression that this approach will not be a problem to MoCo school officials, since it's still common for families to change systems (with almost all the movement from DC to MoCo for older kids).  You must be a MoCo resident (with residency documents to prove it, e.g, drivers license with MoCo address, utilities bills, pay stubs) before your kid takes the magnet exams to try for a magnet, but there's nothing to stop you from shuttling between two homes during your kid's last year in DCPS, or even simply attending a DC school from MoCo for part of your last academic year in DCPS or DC Charter.  Paying MD state income, and property or rental taxes, for the year your kid starts school in MoCo should be part of your plan in the interests of staying on terra firma legally.

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