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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two paths:

All JW students are in the MYP program (which is the IB curriculum for 6th - 10th grade).  If they go to RM, they continue through 10th grade.  At that time they can apply to the actual IB program for 11th and 12th grade joining the magnet students.  Less than 50 do but it is not very competitive at that point..

JW students as well as other MoCo kids can also apply to the selective magnet which begins in 9th grade.  They are in seperate classes from the neighborhood kids.  Though if non-magnet kids continue for 11 and 12th grades they are in the same classes...and some IB classes are open to anyone in the school.  [/quote]

Thanks for the clarification!  So it sounds like all JW students are in IB (MYP) program, there are no "special magnet kids" that can be said to be skewing the school's testing scores.  So a greatschools "9" rating at JW is just as legitimate as a rating for any other school.  Whether a person wants to put any weight behind greatschools ratings in general is up to them, but the point is that no one can say that JW's scores are somehow skewed or not representative of the actual neighborhood's student body.[/quote]

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