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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the most accelerated math track offered at your child’s middle school for grades 6-8?

What is the criteria?[/quote]
At our RoVA county middle school it's Algebra I Honors in 6th.

The criteria - we were told - include 5th grade teacher recommendation, past NWEA results (they discontinued it though), past SOL results (only up to 5th grade SOL), and a math coach invites selected students to take the IAAT in the Spring of their 5th year. Last year, 8 out of ~320 students made it.  Note that our AAP here is a joke and actively anti-math.  Fortunately, GT teachers do not participate in the selection for the advanced math track.  The children who worked hard to achieve this usually had to rely on the support of their parents, in a few cases against the active resistance of their elementary school teachers (I'm saying a "few" - we've lucked out and had very supportive ES teachers in 4th and 5th grade where our child could substitute in-class assignments with their AoPS work. Covid helped a lot, too, since the kids spent less time in school.)

To answer your question regarding criteria, since our child had a 274 K2-6 NWEA in 4th grade, 600 SOLs and a 100% raw IAAT score I cannot tell you what the cut-off is. I don't believe they publish one. I understand that some of the kids got in with slightly lower stats. Nevertheless, they're all doing really well and are on track for Geometry and then Algebra II in 8th. Not all of them are active in Math enrichment activities though.

More acceleration is rare, but there is one case where parents insisted on skipping Geometry, one case where they skipped Algebra I and placed straight into Geometry,  and also cases of transfer students who ended up taking Trig in 8th grade, but I wouldn't count this as "offered Math track."   Overall, it's a very successful selection program our county is proud of, which is why there was so much panic when the Democrats' VMPI proposal wanted to end these opportunities for our math kids.
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Do the 6th graders take the algebra 1 SOL?[/quote]
Well, yes. It's a standard high school level Algebra I Honors class.[/quote]

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