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An example of the TAG MS issue can be seen by comparing Spellman (Great School Rating of 6)  to Rockledge (Great School Rating of 6). Spellman lost about 12% of the class between 1st and 2nd grade last year.  Rockledge's enrollment increased by 1.  Acceptance rates to their TAG magnets are basically the same.  So what is one of the apparent differences?  Spellman feeds into Gholson (GS rating of 3) while Rockledge feeds into Samuel Ogle MS (GS rating of 7) and Bowie HS.

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12% of Spellman's 1st grade class isn't going to a TAG center school.   There are what, at most 120 kids there in grade 1.   14 of them aren't going to Highland Park.   They might be leaving for other reasons though.[/quote]

Actually, at least 8 of the 79 kids in that specific class left for HP at the beginning of this year.  Not sure where the other 2% went.

Clearly people move around for all kinds of reasons and given the number of variables involved the stats I was playing with aren't scientifically significant     I was just looking at trends, and seeing how they might support the playground chatter I hear from families in Cheverly who say they wouldn't leave Spellman to go to Highland Park/Dora Kennedy/Hoyer/Pullen if they knew they had a viable MS option.  I think if the county poured some more thought and money into magnet MS programs they wouldn't need to keep increasing the magnet ES programs in order to attract and retain middle class families at the public schools.

IMO the county needs to look at why people of higher SES leave the public schools as their kids get to higher grades and what PGCPS can do to keep them in the system. This year there are 10,000 Kindergarten students but only 9,000 7th graders.

I think that the need for additional slots in TAG MS programs is evidenced by the sheer volume of kids who enter the lottery for 6th grade TAG with a minuscule chance of getting in.  I think that the county knows it and took down the raw data spreadsheet so people couldn't keep track of how many kids don't get spots.  
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