Reply to Takoma Park MS Magnet

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Takoma Park MS Magnet - 25 inbound seats?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn't a quota but a limit without which there would be more like 50 in boundary kids in the program taking even more seats from the out of boundary kids.

MCPS' own data used to establish cohort criteria shows the SS area has the largest number of high-performers of any MS by a wide margin, and TKPK is the same or more so. [/quote]

Curious what data you're referring to? I'm not disagreeing necessarily, but I've never heard this before.

I'm zoned for TPMS and know a fair number of families in our area with kids in the magnet program, and I do know they're all strong students—I know some who were accepted to both Eastern and Takoma magnets. But I'm a little skeptical that there might be *that* large a number who would get in over kids from out of boundary. I mean, we're definitely not the ganglandia wasteland some here like to portray, but I wouldn't say we're Lake Woebegon, either ("...where all the children are above average...").

So if you really do have data that demonstrates such a strong high-performing cohort in SS and TKPK, I'd adore to have that in my arsenal of facts. And assuming they're also strong in English, then shouldn't we be arguing for the addition of a Humanities magnet class at TPMS? [/quote]

The spreadsheet for this was posted in a thread here yesterday. It was what MCPS used to establish high-achieving peer cohorts at various MS, and SS area MS had far more than any "good" school by a large margin.  This showed percentages with high MAP and CogAT scores.

Many people equate high average test scores with high-achievement but in reality, it means low-poverty which isn't the same thing. [/quote]

The magnets like TPMS and Eastern aren't included in that list for whatever reason, but you can read between the lines since PBES is the largest feeder and always sent more kids to the regional CES than any other ES in the area...[/quote]

The SS MS was the front runner for MAP-M achievers which was one of the better predictors for the STEM magnet. [/quote]

This chart?
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics