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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thank you for these responses.  To answer some questions, we are looking for schools that have a large enough cohort of kids at and above grade level that there are classes and programs geared towards them (our local middle school has almost no kids at or above grade level) .  If this criterion is met, we are ok with high farms.  I hadn't thought about school within school issues. Sounds like sligo and ssims might be better than eastern. Was surprised to hear favoring ssims over eastern given that the latter feeds into Blair and the former into Northwood and Blair is generally considered to be better. [/quote]

Eastern Middle has a middle school magnet to which you must apply.  There are no seats set aside for local students (in contrast with TPMS which sets aside 25 seats in the magnet for kids who live in the TPMS district).  So, if you are looking at "above grade level" at Eastern, it is largely not available to kids outside of the magnet.  You can take above level math, but the teachers, IME, were not great (one taught an entire unit incorrectly and when her teaching errors were brought to her attention, just gave everyone As and pretended nothing was wrong).  Science was truly terrible.  Our experience was a few years ago, so not sure if they are teaching the same above level class outside the magnet at Eastern that was supposed to be available at some other middle schools.

That said, it was our experience that in 7th grade, a few seat in the magnet open up to local EMS kids when magnet students leave (move or decide to return to home school).

Northwood has a MCPS MCC/HS program where you can go to Northwood for 2 years and then take your last two years in all MCC classes -- that might be of interest to some above grade level students. 
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Eastern student who are above grade level in math and FL can take classes at Blair just down University Blvd and then ride the school bus to the rest of their day in MS.[/quote]

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