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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks to the PP for posting that admissions data; I hadn't seen it before.

The "considered" number appears to be the entire population (11,466 3rd graders for CES, ~12,000 5th graders between the upcounty and downcounty magnets).

What really strikes me is how few middle school magnet spots there are, which I knew but hadn't seen spelled out quite this way before.  6% of 3rd graders were placed in the CES, but only ~3% in the middle school magnets (~1.5% each at the math and humanities magnets in each part of the county). Those spots were filled through a lottery of the top 15% (roughly) at each magnet, meaning that only 1 out of 10 kids that the school system identified as qualified through their process this year were placed in a given magnet.  If the county says that the other 9 out of 10 kids can be served at their local schools, why even bother having the magnet for that small percentage of kids?[/quote]

I agree with you, and I think these magnet programs will die on the vine (and that is what MCPS wants). I've never understood why there weren't enough spots in the MS magnets to accommodate all kids in the ES magnets. For whatever reason, the MS magnet spots have always been treated as a scarce resource. When they did the pilot for universal testing, they found that even more kids qualified for enrichment than previously thought. They decided to expand enrichment at individual schools, rather than expand spots at Eastern/Takoma/Clemente/MLK. It is likely both because of space and equity issues.[/quote]

There are some middle schools that do not have enough cohort to consistently provide the home school magnet classes. I cannot believe MCPS wouldn’t take students headed to those schools into account for the decision process.[/quote]

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