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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The curriculum is the same across the county. At the MS level there are magnet and enriched classes. At the high school level there are STEM tracks, AP and magnets.  There is no acceleration or advancement for K-3 and only compacted math for 4/5. Science is bad at the ES level across the county. It just isn't in the curriculum in a substantive manner.

The highest academic math performers are at ES schools in Churchill, Whitman and Wootton. A portion of these kids used to travel to the TPMS magnet but with the cohort changes they are in their home schools. Pyle, Frost, and Cabin John now have the highest math performers - mostly in the 99-98 percentiles in the county while TPMS now has a few high performers from other schools but mostly able yet not very high performers in the program. If your kid likes math/science but is not a genius or one of the highest performers than TPMS is helpful with the 25 spots for kids that wouldn't normally make it . What is bad is that if your kid misses that cut off then you may not even have an able cohort within TPMS. SSMI has more high performers than TPMS so if you want Silver Spring but don't want to bank on the magnet this is another option.

[b]For a STEM gifted kid, I'd choose a school that feeds into Cabin John, Pyle or Frost.[/b]

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What??? Is this  joke?
For STEM,  these schools don't even come close to TPMS [/quote]

TPMS magnet program only takes a limited number of students. If one considers the rest of the school, Cabin John and Frost are much stronger in STEM.

Of course, if people have confidence that their kids can get into the Magnet program in TPMS, it would not with ES they go to (as long as it is down county).
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Cabin John and Frost cannot come close to Takoma Park. [/quote]

Are you sure about that?

For example, in competitions like mathcounts, I've never seen anyone from Takoma Park MS NOT from their magnet program.
If you just pick the top kids, yes, TPMS is stronger. But that is not a program you just enter if you live in the zone.

Again, TPMS is strong in STEM if you can get in the magnet program. But there is simply no point to live in its school zone.
For non-magnet part, Cabin John and RFMS are clearly stronger.

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