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[quote=Anonymous]This Bethesda Magazine article has convenient bar graphs with the breakdowns (scroll down a bit to the "Students Invited" pair): https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-pilots-universal-evaluation-process-for-middle-school-magnet-programs/.
These are the numbers for invited students, not for those who accepted, so they won't reflect the actual makeup of the current 6th grade classes.

We're looking at a total change of 10 fewer Asian students invited at TPMS, and 7 fewer at Eastern (although EMS did admit a larger overall number to the magnet this year, adding about 20 seats).

At TKMS, the Black/AfAm group picked up at least 9 students, depending on the actual number represented by the "equal or less than 10" stat from last year. The additional slots added at EMS seem to have been distributed between white, Black, mixed race, and Hispanic students.

As the graphs show, between the two magnet programs we're talking about a total difference of 17 fewer Asian students invited this year.

Given the additional spots this year at EMS, the two programs together invited about 33% Asian students last year, down to 24.5% this year. For TKMS alone, the change in percentage of Asian students invited is about the same as in the combined programs, from 39% Asian last year to 31% this year.

So, a change of about 8 percentage points between this year and last, with respect to the number of Asian students in the magnet programs. Not a paltry change, but does it really constitute a vast anti-Asian conspiracy? 
I'd love to see the fluctuations between demographics over previous years. Have we ever had an 8% change in a single demographic between any two previous years?

Frankly, the change that jumps out at me most from these graphs is that invitations at both schools were much more gender-balanced this year (larger percentage of girls admitted this year than last year at TKMS, larger percentage of boys at Eastern). I don't know whether the committee knew the gender of each applicant, or saw their names, which would allow an educated guess. My understanding was that all they saw was a student number, but I don't know that for sure. [/quote]

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