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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has already revised the regions since that article you linked to was written.  These are the new ones:

Region one: Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Walt Whitman in Bethesda, and Montgomery Blair, Albert Einstein and Northwood in Silver Spring;

Region two: James Hubert Blake and Springbrook in Silver Spring, Paint Branch in Burtonsville, and Sherwood in Sandy Spring;

Region three: Walter Johnson in Bethesda, Charles W. Woodward in Rockville, and Wheaton and John F. Kennedy in Silver Spring;

Region four: Richard Montgomery, Rockville, and Thomas S. Wootton in Rockville and Winston Churchill in Potomac;

Region five:  Crown and Gaithersburg in Gaithersburg, Col. Zadok Magruder in Rockville, Damascus and Watkins Mill in Wheaton; and

Region six: Northwest in Germantown and Clarksburg, Poolesville, Seneca Valley and Quince Orchard in Gaithersburg.

[url]https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/07/25/mcps-end-countywide-program-consortia/[/url][/quote]
This is better, but it is like MCPS totally forgot that they recently did a study for the Career & Technical Education (CTE) and already had regions that made some sense. They should use this as a starting point.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/career-readiness/map-consortium/

I have spent 20 years driving kids to various schools, programs, and activities all over up-county and mid-county, and these are the groupings that I think make sense based on geography, actual commute routes, community connectedness, and existing programming.

[b]Region 6:[/b]
Poolesville - SMACS, Humanities, Global Ecology
Seneca Valley - IB 
Northwest - Middle College (MC dual enrollment)
Quince Orchard - (5 signature programs)

[b]Region 5:[/b]
Clarksburg - P-Tech (MC dual enrollment)
Damascus - ? (maybe add Global Ecology here too?)
Watkins Mill - IB
Gaithersburg - PLTW (add more PLTW programs here)

[b]Region 4:[/b]
Wootton - ? (add Dual enrollment business or arts focused programs to fill a gap)
RM - IB
Rockville - IB, PLTW
Magruder - (8 signature programs)

Clarksburg is closer to and more connected to Damascus and Watkins Mill than it is to the west side of 270. Magruder is much closer to Rockville HS and better connected West than North. [b]Crown HS[/b] could be put into any of these three regions based on its location, but I think it goes best with Region 4 (add SMACS type focus), and then maybe Region 6 (add business arts type focus).

[b]Region 3:[/b]
Churchill, WJ, Wheaton, Kennedy, [b]Woodward[/b]

[b]Region 2:[/b]
Sherwood, Paint Branch, Blake, Springbrook (same as above)

[b]Region 1:[/b]
Whitman, BCC, Einstein, Blair, Northwood (same as above)
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