Montgomery College enrolled more graduates of Thomas S. Wootton and Winston Churchill high schools than any other institution, according to college destination data Bethesda Magazine published Tuesday, Sept. 29.

The data covers eight Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) high schools and tracks how many students applied to, were accepted by and enrolled at colleges nationwide. Across all eight schools, Montgomery College drew 652 students. At Wootton, 54 of 67 applicants enrolled. At Churchill, 39 of 45 enrolled.

Penn State–University Park was the most-applied-to four-year school at both Potomac campuses. Churchill students sent 209 applications to Penn State, with 144 accepted and 16 enrolling. Wootton students filed 180 applications; 98 were accepted and 10 enrolled.

Ohio State drew 87 applications from Churchill (61 accepted, 15 attending) and 79 from Wootton (45 accepted, 5 attending). Indiana University–Bloomington pulled 86 Churchill applications (59 accepted, 13 attending) and 67 from Wootton (35 accepted, 7 attending).

Purdue received 74 Wootton applications, with 40 accepted and 11 enrolling.

At Wootton, seven students applied to Harvard and none were accepted. Churchill sent 17 Harvard applications, yielding one acceptance and one enrollee. Cornell accepted 3 of 45 Wootton applicants and 14 of 41 Churchill applicants.

Georgetown admitted 3 of 14 Wootton applicants and 13 of 32 from Churchill. Churchill's seven Georgetown enrollees were the most of any school in the dataset.

George Washington University received 61 Churchill applications (26 accepted, 10 attending) and 47 from Wootton (17 accepted, 7 attending). New York University accepted 17 of 49 Churchill applicants and 9 of 42 from Wootton.

The Montgomery College numbers reflect a broader pattern. In a Sept. 11 article in the Wootton Common Sense student newspaper, Wootton senior Nikhil Arya said dual enrollment at the community college gave him "a much better sense of what college workload will look like and a bit of freedom."

The dataset does not specify which graduating class the figures represent, and MCPS has not confirmed the year. The data also covers only a partial list of colleges; figures for institutions including the University of Maryland and University of Virginia were not included in the available portion of the report.

The complete tables are available on Bethesda Magazine's website.