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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would go with Piney Branch ES, which has a local CES. Even though CES is mostly humanities-based. Also living in Takoma Park MS zone you'll have a better chance of getting a seat in the magnet program.[/quote]

Not to mention TPES (k-2) has the only ES STEM magnet. Also the ES are focus schools with smaller class sizes and enriched math classes starting in 1st. [/quote]

Takoma Park schools are a great choice for kids interested in STEM education. It's one of the reasons we elected to buy in TKPK. Real estate is less expensive in the DC area than the area we moved from so cost wasn't a factor. Places like Bethesda or Potomac didn't appeal to us, but to each her own...

TPES (K - 2): Elementary magnet w/ small classes. math enrichment and dedicated STEM teacher
   PBES (3-5):   Local CES program w/ roughly 25% participation
   TPMS (6-8):   Middle school stem magnet with an in-boundary set-aside. [b]Admission is otherwise impossible these days.[/b]
   Blair: (9-12): SMCS & CAP magnets, although there's no set-aside TPMS, prepares kids for these options[/quote]

Then there are a lot of students in the program who achieved the impossible.[/quote]

It's true that roughly 75 out of roughly 12,000 students per grade get admitted to this program each year.[/quote]

Actually there are two programs (the upcounty one, and the downcounty one). And more students are admitted than actually attend.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that not a lot of kids get into the MS math/sci magnet.[/quote]

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