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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can some one share the regional magnet programs in Woodward region?[/quote]

Art, Design, Performing Arts, Communication.[/quote]

So with 30% FARMS + these programs ---> Very little numbers left for higher level STEM classes. Woodward may not offer good STEM courses.

WJ with 15% FARMS rate should be able to offer good STEM courses despite school size going down.

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Wheaton and Blair have well over 30% FARMS currently and offer higher level STEM classes.  Those things are not mutually exclusive.
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Ah, you missed a fact that Whaton and Blair host STEM magnet. Woodward will host Art, drama etc. Apple to orange situation.[/quote]
I didn’t miss it.  Blair does have the SMCS magnet, but the engineering and biomedical academy programs at Wheaton aren’t magnets.

If magnets are the issue, then comparing to WJ, which doesn’t have a magnet, is also irrelevant.  [/quote]

Not the PP, but you missed the point totally.

Low FARMS( WJ) -- Enough kids with interest in higher level STEM
Engineering and biomedical academy programs program will attract STEM kids, lots of STEM kids come from outside to attend and it allows high level STEM courses.
[b]Woodward will have high FARMS rate with no attraction for STEM kids from outside to come and attend. 
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In short, either STEM program or low FARMS, both will work fine.

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Many Woodward STEM kids will go outside and combined that with bold, no way higher level STEM courses are going to be offered in Woodward. 
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