Rejections to Magnets. What Does it Mean for Enriched Classes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last year, in response to a public records request, MCPS published a spread sheet that showed all the Middle Schools in the pilot area, with the number of kids who qualified under each criteria - Cogat (broken down by section) MAP tests, and PARCC.

Based on the numbers of kids in our home middle school in the enriched classes, if you qualified under any single criteria, you got placed into the enriched class. All bright kids, but there's a big spread in abilities in the enriched classes.

Do you mind posting the spreadsheet/link? What is a qualifier for any single criteria?

Here's the link, but there's no information for the cutoff for the criteria: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf

I'm surprised to see Tilden has one of the lower numbers. I thought Tilden is a good school. Does that mean it doesn't have a strong cohort as other schools that have high numbers?

Me, too! Tilden is our home MS; my child was rejected from CES with 99% CogAt last year. According to my DC, when kids compared scores, a lot of children claimed to have scored 98-99%. Not sure how accurate that self-reported data was , but ours is a very good elementary with great PARCC scores, so, at least at the elementary level, there are plenty of 'high-achievers'.

FWIW, I know two kids who were admitted to magnets last year, one from a CES, another straight from our elementary. Whether or not that means 'the absence of the cohort' at Tilden, I don't know.

[Anonymous]

This is fascinating data. It’s so much more useful to see the numbers of top performers than to see schoowide test score averages. My allegedly “bad” middle school looks pretty good on here. And what in the world went wrong with Westland? Did the kids blow off the tests or something?

[Anonymous]

Interesting data point from our home MS parent session last night. Not sure for math but over half of the kids in 6th grade will be in the enriched Global Humanities course.

[Anonymous]

What MS PP? Is this Pyle? That's the only school on this chart from last year with those kinds of numbers.

[Anonymous]

At MS open house, one of the slide said, AIM (the enriched math class) is for students with PARCC 4,5 and MAP-M >=95%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What MS PP? Is this Pyle? That's the only school on this chart from last year with those kinds of numbers. [/quote

Lakelands Park Middle School in Gaithersburg.

[Anonymous]

10:44 again. This is Lakelands Park MS. Also wanted to add that there is no different math class. They have just renamed IM to Applied IM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10:44 again. This is Lakelands Park MS. Also wanted to add that there is no different math class. They have just renamed IM to Applied IM.

What about IM for 7th graders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At MS open house, one of the slide said, AIM (the enriched math class) is for students with PARCC 4,5 and MAP-M >=95%.

Is this Lakeland Parks MS also?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:10:44 again. This is Lakelands Park MS. Also wanted to add that there is no different math class. They have just renamed IM to Applied IM.

What about IM for 7th graders?

Didn't ask but thats a good question. The slides at the parent night were so funny. Either you are in "Advanced World Studies" or this humanities thing which is more advanced than advanced!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At MS open house, one of the slide said, AIM (the enriched math class) is for students with PARCC 4,5 and MAP-M >=95%.

Is this Lakeland Parks MS also?

DP: seems unlikely because OP of Lakeland post said IM is now called Applied IM. Seems impossible that everyone taking IM in 6th grade has those stats.

[Anonymous]

Some schools are offering Applied IM and IM to 6th graders next year so splitting the 5/6 cohort. Decision comes from central office based on the criteria they used for magnets (with or without cogat)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At MS open house, one of the slides said, AIM (the enriched math class) is for students with PARCC 4,5 and MAP-M >=95%.

Is this Lakeland Parks MS also?

No. It's Robert Frost MS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:44 again. This is Lakelands Park MS. Also wanted to add that there is no different math class. They have just renamed IM to Applied IM.

What about IM for 7th graders?

Didn't ask but thats a good question. The slides at the parent night were so funny. Either you are in "Advanced World Studies" or this humanities thing which is more advanced than advanced!!!

The new 6th grade regular curriculum basically names everything "advanced." It's just the name of the class, but it sure looks good for marketing. For example, at Lee MS, EVERY 6th grader will take "Advanced English." They claim that the new curriculum is better at handling the needs of both advanced students and remedial students, but the classes are homogenized and remedial students will be in a same class as advanced students, with everyone else mixed in, too. The higher-performing students are paired with lower-performing students to help being up the lower students, but there's no benefit in that for the higher students. They'll get an advanced reading group, like they do now in regular elementary school. So, if there's only one non-magnet class, and it's labeled "advanced," take that with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

PP. I know. Just remarking how funny it is. Also makes me laugh how the choices for English are "Advanced" English or ESOL. Nothing in between