What % of students take Algebra 1 in 7th?

[Anonymous]

Different schools have different math progression paths. How many students take Algebra in 7th?

[Anonymous]

I would say a minority.

[Anonymous]

In our district (not quite as strong as Fairfax, for example, but a college town, so lots of strong performers at the top), about 3% of 7th graders take algebra 1. Our district requires top 5 percentile scores on state test, IAAT test, A grades, and teacher rec, for example. I imagine there are more kids who take Alegbra I in 7th in an area like Fairfax given the lower IAAT threshold and the generally well educated student/parent body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Different schools have different math progression paths. How many students take Algebra in 7th?

In our districts, about 2% of 6th graders and maybe 15-20% of 7th graders.
Some of them struggle down the road; appropriate numbers would be .5% of 6th and 8-10% of 7th IMO.

[Anonymous]

I would say it's about 30% in our school.

[Anonymous]

In MCPS something like 1/3 of students take it in 7th or 8th, not sure what the split is though.

[Anonymous]

3-25% based on school.

[Anonymous]

The US DOE says only 24% of students take it in 8th grade (or prior). 20% of students don't even have access to it until 9th grade.

Realistically it's probably around 2-5% of the country.

https://www2.ed.gov/datastory/stem/algebra/index.html

[Anonymous]

Symptom of the problem with American education, too little, too late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Symptom of the problem with American education, too little, too late.

It's not different anywhere else.

[Anonymous]

In our (relatively high-performing) MCPS, it's pretty low - about 10 percent of students. A significantly higher percentage takes it in 8th.

[Anonymous]

Not many

[Anonymous]

Need to stop teaching math in chapters Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Trig, Calculus and teach integrated math, introducing algebraic and other more advanced math concepts beginning in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

MCPS, one of 3 students in 5 th grade gifted center bussed to nearby middle school for algebra

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Different schools have different math progression paths. How many students take Algebra in 7th?

In our districts, about 2% of 6th graders and maybe 15-20% of 7th graders.
Some of them struggle down the road; appropriate numbers would be .5% of 6th and 8-10% of 7th IMO.

How many of them struggle so much that they drop back down a level, and then continue to struggle worse than they would have had the never accelerated? As contrived as it sounds, that's the only circumstance under which it would have been better for the child to never have been accelerated.