Reply to Thinking of Moving to MoCo for schools

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Thinking of Moving to MoCo for schools - please advise"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very confused by this. I've never heard of this and there isn't one at our W-cluster elementary school. In fact, this is one of the main complaints about MCPS (that there are no Gt programs at individual schools)/

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
We didn't know it when we moved here, but MoCo also has a second level of GT programming -- there is a GT program in each school, and a county-level GT program (highly gifted center or HGC) that kids can test into -- takes the top 2-3% of the kids.  So whereas in DC, our kids struggled to find grade-level academic peers, they had them in spades in MoCo (both tested into HGC), which has given them challenges they were missing.  We miss many things about our community in DC (for one, diversity was much better), but for our kids, academically, it was the right thing to do.  We have been very pleased with our kids' experience overall.  Good luck![/quote][/quote]

The HGC (highly gifted center) program is the county-level program.  There are 8 centers in the county, so only 8 ES's in the county will house one.  For the W schools, there are 3:  Barnsley, Cold Spring, and Chevy Chase.  If you're a parent of a 3rd grader, you got a letter in the fall inviting you to apply for your child.  Then your child would have tested in January.  Acceptances went out in March/April for attendance in 4th and 5th grade.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/elementary/highly-gifted-centers.aspx

But I agree that what the GT designation gets your kid in his/her home school short of the HGC is a question mark.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics