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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MCPS position is that they were failures because RMIB was still around as a countywide program, and if there are no countywide programs then the regional ones will succeed.[/quote]
I don't know how much it would change.

Seneca Valley regional IB - new and  the biggest unknown.   
Paint Branch regional IB - barely any change
Kennedy regional IB - biggest change with WJ being part of the region
Watkins Mill regional IB -- slight change with QO and some boundary changes from Crown

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ546789D4/$file/Attachment%20B%20Program%20Analysis%20Data%20Slides%20250724.pdf

RMIB has 475 students. 225 from the same region 4.  Almost half of  RMIB students come from this region.

110 from RM - region 4
63 from Churchill - region 4
62 from Wootton - region 4
42 Walter Johnson  Kennedy region 3.
31 Northwest   new SV IB region 6
28 Clarksburg  new SVIB  region 6 ( IMO, NW and Clarksburg would have the biggest loss here)
19 QO - region 5 Watkins IB regional
17 Damascus region 6 new SV IB
11 Macgruder region 5  Watkins IB regional)

The rest are < 10.

Region 1  BCC IB - no significant population in RMIB from this region. This region is mostly currently served by the current Kennedy region.  So not much would change.

BCC 
Whitman
Einstein
Blair
Northwood

Region 2
Springbrook IB  new region would serve: Sherwood, Blake, Paint Branch. 
Springbrook IB regional  current enrollment 252  already serves those schools. Nothing would change.  RMIB doesn't have any significant population from these schools.

Blake 74
Paint Branch 54
Springbrook 114
Sherwood < 10

Region 3
Kennedy IB regional would serve:  Einstein, Woodward, WJ.   This one may change due to the Woodward boundary changes.

Current Kennedy IB enrollment 196 total:
Kennedy 86
Einstein 17
WJ  42 from RMIB
Woodward ? -

Region 5 
Watkins Mill IB would serve:  QO, GHS, Seneca, Crown, Macgruder. This one may change slightly due to Crown.
Current enrollment 163 
Current RMIB - 19 for QO 
It doesn't appear that a significant portion of Wootton would go to Crown with the new boundary.

GHS 18
WM 111
Rest are < 10

So, out of the 4 current IB programs, I think only Kennedy would see a significant change.[/quote]

With regards to RMIB, the statistics you are quoting are not in the link you provided.

Moreover, those statistics appear to include not only the set-aside for JWMS but also the kids in-bounds for RM who opted into the IB program in 11th grade. That's not a real metric of where the criteria-based admissions are coming from. [/quote]

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DJVQ56678E2B/$file/Attachment%20D%20SY2025%20Student%20Enrollment%20Countywide%20Programs%20250724.pdf

A lot of the RMIB kids are from RM, Wootton, Churchill - all in region 4.

[b]WJ might help Kennedy IB[/b], but it would depend on how many students at WJ would be willing to go to Kennedy over the programs at Woodward/WJ.

MCPS is assuming that the interest in IB will remain static, and that the same number of students interested in a program in School A will be the same number of students interested in a program in school B, thereby not impacting capacity.  But, I guarantee you that this is not going to be the way it plays out.  There are stronger interests in programs like STEM than there are in other programs.[/quote]

I actually think it'll hurt Kennedy IB. High-achieving Kennedy kids with means and resources will jump at the opportunity to be in a higher-performing high school like Walter Johnson and will apply to programs at Woodward and Walter Johnson just to escape the squalor and struggle at Kennedy. Which will further weaken the pool of quality IB candidates for the Kennedy IB program.[/quote]

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