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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Similarly, if your child (or family) is very Humanities-oriented, then go to the Montgomery Knolls ES zone (which is the lower elementary that feeds into the Pine Crest upper elementary) or the New Hampshire Estates ES zone (which is the lower elementary that feeds into the Oak View upper elementary), both of which feed to Eastern MS. Both CES schools draw more students from their 3rd grade than is represented by any other school in the CES area, then Eastern has 10-20 seats reserved in their magnet for students in Pine Crest and Oak View (living in that zone, not bussing in as CES students). It's less competitive than the 6000 MCPS students/year competing for the 100 other magnet seats. Warning about these elementary pairs - the lower elementary is not located near the upper elementary, so if you're considering living near the school to walk to/from, you have to pick one, and if you're within a mile radius of the other school, you will not have a bus. [/quote]

Most of this is wrong, by the way.

The Oak View CES does not draw heavily from the NHE/OVES attendance zone, and other elementary schools in the feeder pattern have many more kids represented.

There are no set-asides for in-bounds kids in the Eastern magnet the way there are at TPMS. If a seat opens up, they will fill it with a capable in-bounds kid, sometimes, but there is no set aside of any number.

It makes me wonder how much of the rest of that novel was wrong as well. [/quote]

PCES's CES definitely has set-asides for local students, but maybe OV does it differently.  My rising 5th grader (in-bounds at PCES) was given a late spot for 4th grade last year because it was mid-August and a spot opened up, which they give to local students, presumably because it's too late to change bus routes and other school plans.  My next door neighbor's kid got a spot in Eastern as a local student, and was informed of this during the last school year.  In the TPMS and Eastern magnet information, it is specified that there are some local set-asides.  It is fewer at Eastern, but there are always seats reserved that are not competitive with the rest of the county.  Also, there are occasionally students who drop out of the program during 6th grade, and new local Eastern students are invited for the second semester to take open spots, as has been discussed this past year in this forum.[/quote]

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