2025 Magnet School Selection here. MCPS Map M R score

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Anonymous wrote:245 Map R. Home school Chevy Chase. Selected for Eastern

From CCES's CES program or not from CCeS CES?

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Does anyone know how the first round of invites are done? who selects it, county or school?

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County does it by random lottery. It used to be the schools a long time ago.

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Anonymous wrote:DC selected from the pool to go to Clemente. 5th grade Fall Map-M 256.

Congratulations! Which ES?

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My child was selected for TPMS. Will not go though.

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DS selected for TKMS and we are considering

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For the first round pick, does mcps select students randomly from lottery or pick based on performance. What about some one scored 280 not selected vs 230 selected?

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Anonymous wrote:For the first round pick, does mcps select students randomly from lottery or pick based on performance. What about some one scored 280 not selected vs 230 selected?

It’s in random. Everyone in the lottery has an equal chance of being selected, regardless of their MAP scores.

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My daughter got into Eastern. Her Map-R from fall was 231 which was 95% percentile. From the info I found online - they apparently only looked at the fall score. She did not even get put into the TPMS lottery pool because she got a B in math in Q1 (apparently the only Q they look at). Other than that she had all As and her two past Map-Ms were good, but Spring last year was 96% and fall this year was 89%.

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my DC scored 238, in pool for MAP M but not selected in the round 1. However, the classmates scored 220s was selected. I always that they have to be at the 85th percentile locally normed. we are in the low farm rate 15% still not sure how 220 qualifies for CES.

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Anonymous wrote:my DC scored 238, in pool for MAP M but not selected in the round 1. However, the classmates scored 220s was selected. I always that they have to be at the 85th percentile locally normed. we are in the low farm rate 15% still not sure how 220 qualifies for CES.

For MAP-M they look at both 5th grade fall and 4th grade spring percentiles. (This is covered in FAQs of MS magnet selection in MCPS website). This is to factor in the fact that kids in 5/6 compacted math take the 6+ MAP-M in fall (a new battery questions with higher order concepts not encountered in elementary school). This in turn means declines in raw RIT scores for some kids in fall map-M (especially those without outside enrichment and/or not having had exposure to these concepts). So a kid with 220s in fall may have had a much higher score (e.g. high 230s) in spring of 4th grade (and likely consistently before). Heard of at least one such case in our network.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter got into Eastern. Her Map-R from fall was 231 which was 95% percentile. From the info I found online - they apparently only looked at the fall score. She did not even get put into the TPMS lottery pool because she got a B in math in Q1 (apparently the only Q they look at). Other than that she had all As and her two past Map-Ms were good, but Spring last year was 96% and fall this year was 89%.

It is so much lower than before. Many kids at Eastern before were 240s-260s.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:245 Map R. Home school Chevy Chase. Selected for Eastern

From CCES's CES program or not from CCeS CES?

From the ces program at CCES.

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Anonymous wrote:my DC scored 238, in pool for MAP M but not selected in the round 1. However, the classmates scored 220s was selected. I always that they have to be at the 85th percentile locally normed. we are in the low farm rate 15% still not sure how 220 qualifies for CES.

Having an IEP or a couple other things can lower the threshold needed.