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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CES schools are elementary magnet schools. Traditionally "gifted" kids from around the cluster but MCPS has watered it down to target kids who are statistical outliers for their home school. 
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/elementary/center-enriched-studies/
For WJ the CES school Chevy Chase.
The curriculum has generally emphasized more intensive reading/writing. Math is largely the same unless there may be a cohort of exceptionally accelerated kids.

At the end of 3rd grade kids are evaluated based on their test scores to see if they make it into the CES lottery. These same scores are used to determine if they should be tracked into the compacted math track which covers grades 4,5,6 math in just two years. This compacted math track puts a kid into AIM in 6th and algebra in 7th.
The curriculum as to whats covered in each grade is on the MCPS website. Since you are coming from outside, please be aware that MCPS curriculum doesn't always align with everyone else.[/quote]

Not watered down. The 5th grade teacher (not MCPS) is the same person running the same curriculum for the past 30 years. [/quote]
I had kids in HGC and CES and it is definitely watered down [/quote]

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