Percentage of elementary students in AAP
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Anonymous
| You are not measuring the AAP percentages correctly ... the elementary AAP schools are CENTERS. So they pull kids from other elementary schools. So when you say that 40% of the kids at, e.g., Churchill Road school, are in AAP, that is not 40% of the kids who would usually be at Churchill Road. It is some percentage of kids at Churchill Road, plus people who come from adjoining elementary school districts because their home base elementary schools that don't have an AAP center. (And as a consequence, those schools have 0% in AAP). More like 10% of the kids from each school in McLean are AAP. |
Anonymous
Countywide is 16.6% (quote from previous post), so McLean area should be higher than that, more like 20% to 25% range, because of the higher-income (thus stay-home moms can dedicate 18 hours/day on their kids, getting WISC to appeal, etc). |
Anonymous
| 16.6 percent is all level iv, not just center. |
Anonymous
| PS: my DC in AAP center in mclean. Most of the moms and dads of AAP kids both work outside the home, often at jobs with much responsibility. (Moms include law partners, SES in govt, NIH research scientists, practicing MDs, World Bank executives with much international travel). Only SAHMs I know in McLean are GE moms. |
Anonymous
16.6 percent is all Level IV Centers and does not include Local Level IV, per December 10, 2012 presentation to the School Board -- see slide #18: http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/92UNAX5CE5A8/$file/AAP%20Expansion%20Plan%20Final_2_PPT.pdf |
Anonymous
| Nor does it include kids who opted out of centers and are at their base school, which is one population that FCPS said they were concerned about meeting the needs of. I've not seen a count of those kids yet come out of FCPS. |
Anonymous
| Our base school in McLean, which is not a center, is 40% AAP. |
Anonymous
Where are you from? Because you don't know McLean schools (even though you did correctly name one). |
Anonymous
| Just curious - which elementary base school in Mclean is 40% AAP but not a Center school? |
Anonymous
FCPS has monthly numbers showing the Level IV Center AAP program enrollment for each school site. That includes local level IV and center programs. Grades k through 2 are excluded from eligibility so you have to subtract out those grade levels. The bold percentages would be higher if you added back in the students that go to a center. More than 50% gifted? Perhaps that is one reason the program was changed to Advanced Academic programs instead of GT. Source: http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:42:2419785714393363::NO:  42_SCHOOL_YEAR,P42_CLUSTER_ID,P42_DIVISION_ID,P42_SCHOOL_ID:201213,1,DIVISION,
Chesterbrook grade 3 gen ed 80 grade 4 gen ed 66 grade 5 gen ed 51 grade 6 gen ed 68 grades 3 thru 6 gen ed 265 AAP-Lvl IV CTR/PG 110 grades 3 thru 6 total 375 percent qualified for AAP-Lvl IV CTR/PG 29% Forestville grade 3 gen ed 39 grade 4 gen ed 48 grade 5 gen ed 59 grade 6 gen ed 54 grades 3 thru 6 gen ed 200 AAP-Lvl IV CTR/PG 204 grades 3 thru 6 total 404 percent qualified for AAP-Lvl IV CTR/PG 50% |
Anonymous
| 204 AAP students is more than some of the current AAP centers have. |
Anonymous
Because 204 includes Local Level IV (who are not Center-eligible) as well as Level IV Center students that opted not to go to the AAP Center. |
Anonymous
Right. Us SAHMs are either micromanaging helicopter parents prepping and testing all day or just dummies whose children inherited our mediocre genes only fit for GE. Geesh! Very nice characterizations both ways. |
Anonymous
| 11:42 Are you sure that Forestville doesn't have 204 students who qualified? Those numbers are done by the central office so I don't see why they would know which children are put into specific classrooms. |
Anonymous
This is elementary school so it's correct for 204 center eligible. The Local Level IV are the students who opted not to go to a center. In middle school the demographics and student membership numbers are different because one is center and total level IV includes the honors which does not exist in elementary school. |