Does AAP affect middle school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Last year, Carso was 61% level IV AAP & 32% GE )including LI-LIII) with the remainder being a combo of ESL & spec Ed. There were 3 full AAP teams, out of 5 total in 7th. Same demographics in this year's 7th (3/5 teams AAP). About 660 kids/class., about 450 of whom are AAP. 89'TJ admits. "

Those percentages double count students. If you look at the profile page the %'s add up to more than 100%. Some students are AAP and ESL, AAP and Special ED, AAP, ESL and Special Ed.... It is more like a Venn diagram than siloed categorizes.

+1. I think this has been pointed out to this poster on any number of occasions but she persists in inflating the size of the AAP program at Carson, while getting other facts wrong (other than the number of TJ admits from Carson). It's hard to tell if the size of the AAP program at Carson is a source of pride or anxiety for her, but she is giving a false picture of the school, including how many kids theoretically might be sent back to Franklin in the future.

Ummm, no. I haven't argued with anyoneon DCUM 9or anywhere else) the size of the AAP program at Carson on "a number of occasions," or any prior occasions for that matter. But there are a lot of AAP Carson parents, so maybe you are fighting with someone else? I care about the Carson program to some extent because I have a kid in the 8th grade, and also because DC #2 is Carson bound.. So, I just pulled the dashboard and website numbers and looked at the 8th grade (as a side note, it's raining, and I'm putting off a boring work assignment). From having a kid at the school, I know that Carson has 5 8th grade teams, and 3 of the teams are AAP. The website demographics page says CArson is 61% level IV AAP, but that seems high, and I have variously heard: (1) that counts kids who take 4l honors classes, (20 they add in kids who take honors geometry 8th and/or (3) they count kids who re AAP eligible, even if they don't take AAP classes. I know the GE numbers on the demographics page includes AAP levels I-III kids.,Of course some AAP kids are also special ed-- 2e is alive and well.

Dashboard says in the 8th grade is slightly more than 50% AAP: 337 AAP kids and 334 GE. It also says that 326 kids transfer into Carson for AAP (7th & 8th combined) and 354 transfer in total (Carson has a small partial Japanese immersion program and some kids transfer for that). So about 1/2 of Carson's AAP kids are transfers (side not: Carson is over-enrolled). Almost all of the AAP transfers come from Franklin, which has 345 AAP level IV transfers out (7th & 8th combined). So, once Franklin becomes a full blown Center, it will include about 1/2 of Carson's current AAP kids. Put another way, it will have about 170-180 AAP kids/grade more than it has in it's current LLIV program.

I'm not sure exactly what any of this means, except (1) half or nearly half or slightly more than half of the Carson students are level IV AAP and (2) of the AAP eligible students, about half have Franklin as a base.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Longfellow. But, enjoy the data: http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/enrollment/msenroll15-16.html

[Anonymous]

^^^ I know there are typos. Don't iPhone and write!

[Anonymous]

Here is some good advice... If you think your kids would qualify for AAP (level IV services) qualify as soon or early as possible. If they qualify, you do not have to send them, but they have the option for AAP in middle school/or at anytime. Because qualifying for AAP is NOT just a matter of qualifying test scores, the longer you wait to qualify the harder it gets to qualify. *I have had friends move here and immediately enter kids in AAP, they definitely had a hard time keeping up. It not necessarily the curriculum, but the kids they are amongst in class. Many school districts that 30% gifted populations, yet most of these kids quilt you with IQs in the 130-139 range. There are many, many, many here with much higher IQs. 140-145+ is very common. The parents did not realize the pool of kids they would be amongst in AAP. Meaning there are many high IQ kids in this county that would automatically qualify in many school districts- based on their IQ score along.