Please take it with a grain of salt when someone says the local CES is nothing special and doesn’t really make a difference. My kids attended the RCES local CES, and I found that the parents who said that kind of thing usually didn’t really know what they were talking about because they were unfamiliar with the differences in curriculum between the CES and non CES classes.

If your child’s home school has a local CES, then it doesn’t really matter how that CES compares to a regional CES, because a regional CES isn’t an option. It’s local CES or no CES. All of the CESs changed to a lottery during Covid, so they’re all a different caliber now than they used to be.

The important thing about local CESs is that a high percentage of the top performers are clustered in the CES and no low performers are admitted. Kids who are high performers but have behavioral issues will be admitted, so it’s not idyllic, but the pace of the lessons isn’t glacial and much more advanced books are offered in reading. There will be more projects and less busywork.

The only thing that might hinder your child’s ability to leave a CES class for a regular class would be staffing issues. If the non CES classes are at capacity, it might present more of a challenge to move to one of them.

Of they don't like it they can go back to the home school. But it's a bit disruprive to the student so just try to make a good choice from the jump

Someone tells me that local CES is not that special even one gets selected. Does that mean local CES teacher and curriculum may not be that strong, and maybe less workload compared to those regional CES? What happen if my kid decides not liking local CES, can they change back to regular class at 4th grade? There is no need of changing school since it is local CES. I have asked my kid, and no kid talks about CES at school. No parents talk about CES as well.

Not sure if it is helpful, I am talking about RCES local CES.