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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think that if you are coming from a high performing school like Frost you are more likely to find a larger group of 99th percentile kids at Frost then you are at the magnets. This is based on the MCPS info that places like Frost had peer cohorts greater than 20.

In reality their high performing cohorts are probably much larger.

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You might think that but the data the county released indicates that's simply not the case.[/quote]

NP. Here's one chart MCPS used to show size of infamous "cohorts" by middle school.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf[/quote]

Seems like there isn't a big difference between these schools but to get a real sense would need to normalize the values to account for population differences. For example, Pyle has maybe 30% more students than SSI or Frost.[/quote]

The total size of the school doesn't matter if they cohort properly. Your child can only been in 1 class in 1 period and all those kids would presumably be cohorted together so it doesn't matter if there are 40 other classes going on at the same time or 100.[/quote]

Sure, any of these schools could fill 1-3 classes of higher-achievers.[/quote]

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