Blair Magnet: what level of math do most 9th graders enter at?

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Anonymous wrote:Because we're not at one of the wealthy schools, DC wasn't able to take Algebra in 6th grade, but they still took functions in 9th and finished CalcBC by the end of 10th grade.

This is nonsense. See the post in this thread at 09/19/2022 22:26 https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1082936.page#23427900

I did. Everyone knows that only a few wealthy schools in Potomac offer this kind of acceleration.

I don't know about wealthy schools or not, but our down county ESs would not accelerate anyone past compacted, and TPMS would not bump anyone up but would serve kids coming in already ahead. So the most advanced track for most kids is Alg 1 in 7th. Mine did this and went from Geom in 8th to Functions at Blair. It was a tough year of math. Kid had doubts about loving math after that year, but it came back and was good in the end (partly because that meant they had 2 amazing teachers and bypassed the not-great teacher for core math classes).

That was our experience as well. We asked because DC had scored 20-30 points above the 99% in 5th and 6th but no dice. Some claim there are a few schools that did this on a rare case by case basis but it doesn't seem widespread outside of Potomac.