Compacted math eligibility grades 4/5

[Anonymous]

How does it work? It there an explicit cutoff threshold per elementary school based on MAP scores or is it more discretionary based on grades and teacher input? My kid has a 90th pctile MAP-M and was trying to understand if that would get them in…

[Anonymous]

If understand correctly, central office/math suggests schools consider MAP RIT score, district assessment scores, grades, MCAP score, and some teacher input. What schools actually do varies by school.

[Anonymous]

Check man told threads.

Schools look at their cohorts and decide how many classes make sense, and then kids on the bubble are either in or out depending how the numbers balance for class-size.

[Anonymous]

Ive heard theyre trying to reduce the numbers of kids in compacted as many get to algebra not ready for the advanced work.

[Anonymous]

I have looked in other threads and cannot find this.

It sounds like central office sends out recommendations for kids to be in compacted math, right? When do those recommendations come out and what are they based on? Is it before or after spring MAP testing?

And then schools get to make their own decisions about who to include, right? Do they tell you before the end of the school year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have looked in other threads and cannot find this.

It sounds like central office sends out recommendations for kids to be in compacted math, right? When do those recommendations come out and what are they based on? Is it before or after spring MAP testing?

And then schools get to make their own decisions about who to include, right? Do they tell you before the end of the school year?

Schools decide based on scores in their cohort.
They make preliminary groupings in spring and adjust in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have looked in other threads and cannot find this.

It sounds like central office sends out recommendations for kids to be in compacted math, right? When do those recommendations come out and what are they based on? Is it before or after spring MAP testing?

And then schools get to make their own decisions about who to include, right? Do they tell you before the end of the school year?

Schools decide based on scores in their cohort.
They make preliminary groupings in spring and adjust in the fall.

Do they tell parents formally via Parentvue like they do with gifted selection? Or do you just learn about it when your kid comes home and says they're in a certain math group.

[Anonymous]

Name your school. People can give you the downlow. The reality is every school is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have looked in other threads and cannot find this.

It sounds like central office sends out recommendations for kids to be in compacted math, right? When do those recommendations come out and what are they based on? Is it before or after spring MAP testing?

And then schools get to make their own decisions about who to include, right? Do they tell you before the end of the school year?

Schools decide based on scores in their cohort.
They make preliminary groupings in spring and adjust in the fall.

Do they tell parents formally via Parentvue like they do with gifted selection? Or do you just learn about it when your kid comes home and says they're in a certain math group.

We got a snail-mail letter a few years ago. It was from the school, not central office.

[Anonymous]

Interesting. School tells me that it is central office picking kids for compacted math. This is not lottery based, and they will have 50 percent of kids placed into compacted math.

[Anonymous]

My child is in 4/5 this year. We got an email in June through parent vue with two attachments - one letter that she was selected for 4/5 and one faq.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was a CO review with schools able to add some students that were on the cusp depending on class size.

A letter is usual sent in Summer.

[Anonymous]

Our school had sent letters home with DC. Looks like process differs by school.

[Anonymous]

It is late May. Anyone has received notification/letters related to compacted math for grade 4th yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is late May. Anyone has received notification/letters related to compacted math for grade 4th yet?

Isn’t it partially predicated on the spring MAP-M? My kid just took it last week so assumed the decisions would take longer.