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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are supposed to be 125 Math, Science & CS seats in each grade at TPMS.  25 are reserved for the TPMS catchment, while the other 100 are drawn from the rest of the south/east of the county (maybe 2/3 of the MCPS student population? not just the DCC).  75 at Clemente, with 25 of those reserved for the Clemente catchment and the other 50 for the rest of the north/west.

I think there are similar numbers at Eastern for downcounty and King for upcounty for the humanities magnets, though Eastern might have 112 instead of 125, per a 2020 report to the BOE covering placement data through the 2020-21 school year.  [i]From that report, the number of seats at each school used to be higher; in 2019-20, there were 90 at Clemente, 188 at Eastern, 136 at King and 147 at Takoma Park.  I'm guessing that accommodation of appeals, which probably lost basis with the institution of the lottery, had something to do with that, and that the 2020-21 (& likely 2021-22) numbers are reflective of the intended capacity.[/i]

Which is way too low, of course.

Separately, it looks like each of the MSMC schools (Loiederman, Argyle & Parkland), which are not criteria based, have 100 or more slots each for those outside the MSMC catchment.  Additional outside seats are made available there if local populations plus the 100 or so outsiders don't fill the school capacity.[/quote]

A second thought -- the report (https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/schoolchoice/210818%20CES%20Secondary%20App%20Prog%20Admission%20Results.pdf) shows numbers [b]placed[/b], which may mean the number offered seats instead of the number enrolled.  If the report had been generated at the time of initial offers for 2020-21, there may only have been as many offered seats as there was capacity.  The higher numbers for the earlier years may be from those offered seats ("placed"), not all of whom eventually enrolled, with their declined seats going to later rounds of those placed, though they were counted in the total placed for that year -- the report was highlighting placement by race/ethnicity, by application from private and by FARMS status.  So it could be that there were always just the 125 at TPMS, 112 at EMS, 75 at RCMS and 75 at MLKMS.

Which, again, is way too low.[/quote]
It is unclear why they insist on rationing access to quality, accelerated instruction to student that MCPS has deemed worthy. Makes zero sense. [/quote]
But parents couldn't brag on DCUM if there were enough seats to go around![/quote]

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