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Your post just emphasizes the difference in competitiveness.

You see these numbers for your schools and think "There is a boundary issue and our numbers are too low."  And probably lots of other parents from the Carson/Longfellow/Kilmer side of the county would say the same thing.

Over on the LB/RSS/WAYS side of the county (and South County, Hayfield, etc) we thing "Dang, that is a lot of kids over there wanting to get into TJ!"

And if you combined all 3 middle schools from this pyramid, you only get a few more kids (roughly 175 to 150s) applying to TJ compared to just one of your schools.  If you add Hayfield and South County to LB/RSS/WSHS you still would not have as many kids applying for TJ as are applying from Rachel Carson.

The hard numbers show that there is just not the same interest in TJ out this way as there is in the TJ madness zone.[quote]

Carson and Longfellow are on completely different sides of the county. How can you pull them together geographically. These areas have more jobs near them than LB etc. further south in the county and so more people moved in there and certain elementary schools became AAP magnets which then led to a concentration at middle school. Those are getting broken up though and generally have not been an issue at most of the other elementary schools in those pyramids or at middle and nonexistent as a large cohort after TJ kids leave. From what I understand the LB area is a very high transient area due to military so that is another reason why there aren't a lot of TH applicants. It is also a huge school with a ton of diversity. Keene Mill is the only AAP elementary school to have an AAP only field trip as if AAP students need their own field trip as well as academic class so to say that somehow other elementary schools are more cut throat is not based on anything except ra cism. Yes not a lot of Asians have moved into the LB area because there aren't a lot of jobs and apartments there. Otherwise I see little difference at the high school level when AAP has gone away.
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