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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Current CCES parent here....At least from our CES, almost none of the kids get into the MS with the new weighted system....[/quote]

Things are improving, depending on one's perspective.  Our DC is at CCES CES, too, and two years ago (spring 2018), it was true that virtually none of the CES kids got into the MS magnets.  The principal specifically addressed that question at the open house for new-invited kids, and said that it was one or two kids, and then another off the waitlist (or something to that effect).  You could tell she was disturbed about it.  I believe that was the first year that the county added the "cohort" criteria to the selection process, and for whatever reason, it really did impact the kids at the CCES CES program.  There were rumors that kids were being compared to their CES peers, so of course there was a cohort there, but I haven't seen anything confirming that.

I'm not sure what the pre-change numbers were, but at least 5 kids in DC's class were accepted at both MS magnets, and we know of a few who were accepted to on or the other.  But for kids in MS/HS clusters where the schools generally are strong, it appears you needed to be 99% national and MCPS (and MCPS is a misleading percentage because the county subdivided the county based on FARMS percentage, so kids were compared only with others in their FARMS band), and very high raw scores.  The CCES CES program certainly isn't a feeder for the MS magnets, but probably more so than a home ES.  I don't think it should impact a decision to attend any CES program, because the majority of kids are going back to their home MS after the program, and that's likely been true all along.[/quote]

I don't think that 5 number is true for round 1. You may be talking about some kids who got off the wait list. I have a child who got into one and there was exactly one child who was at one the other open house who was going to the next open house. There were some kids who were bragging they got in but they didn't. We heard from the teachers it was a hard year and some of the top students did not get in anywhere in round 1.[/quote]

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