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I posted it and what it shows is that the five middle school clusters with the largest number of "qualified" students are Frost, Hoover, SSIMs, Pyle and Sligo.  I noted that we have heard from parents and from reputable sources such as MCCPTA that the CESs feeding these five clusters have seen the biggest drop in admits to the magnet middle schools.  Only 25% of the kids admitted to the middle school magnets will come from a CES and the CESs with the most high performing students had the worst outcomes, so only a couple of kids from each of the CESs with the most high performing students (Cold Spring/Oakview/Pinecrest) were able to secure spots.  
It really looks like MCPS used their peer cohort filter in a ham handed way.  [b]If you happened to attend a school in a high performing middle school cluster you were less likely to receive a spot which means that there will be large numbers of highly gifted kids in home middle schools who will get just one enriched humanities course instead of 3 or 4 magnet courses at Eastern/ 1 enriched Math course instead of 3 magnet STEM courses at TPMS[/b]

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf

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Or, more accurately, they will get one magnet humanities course AND one magnet math course (for a total of 2 magnet courses), in their home school, instead of three magnet humanities courses OR three magnet math/science courses (for a total of 3 magnet courses) at a magnet school.[/quote]

In the magnet program with three or four interrelated courses and a cohort drawn from 16 high school clusters, the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" .  
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