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[quote=Anonymous][quote]For ES, I would say the Wootton cluster hands on. STEM is largely ignored throughout the MCPS curriculum so you have to rely on cohort and outside activities. The Wootton area is much nerdier than the Blair area and lots of families do STEM oriented after school activities and camps just for fun. Your kid will easily have a large group of peers who enjoy STEM.

For MS, its a good point that with the TPMS magnet curriculum being "adjusted" to support a greater range of ability, the smart students staying back in the Ws and the additional GT/magnet classes at the MS that TPMS is no longer better than RF or CJ. To the extent that scheduling allows both CJ and RF try to group by cohort in the advanced classes. As there are more high performing students in these area, the high cohort class ends up have higher performing students now than the TPMS magnet. [/quote]

+1 Another plus is that some of the ES schools are not overcrowded so the kids get a better overall experience with a strong STEM cohort. [/quote]

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