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Anonymous wrote:My DD was in the 99th percentile for both test and isn't in pool. How is the program approx 20% of the grade and kids with those scores aren't in pool? Seems bizarre. We are not at a super high SES school.
In-pool is the top 10% of each school. The 99th percentile on the CoGAT covers a large range of scores. My kid scored a 135 on the CoGAT which is 99th percentile but would not have been the top 10% at a bunch of schools in FCPS. There are schools where the test score for in-pool is in the 140’s. SES influences the test score, because higher SES families are more informed that the program exist and are more like to enrich their children academically at home and through after school programs, which raises test scores.
LIV is not 20% of the grade for every grade across the county. Twenty percent of the kids end up in LIV by 6th grade because kids are referred after 2nd grade and added to the program or kids move into FCPS and are added to the program. Since kids cannot be removed from LIV once they are accepted into the program, the percent of kids in the program grows each year. Third grade is well under 20% of the student population being in LIV.
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