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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe it's the top 10% of each school. [/quote]

Top 10% based on.... ? (NNAT? CogAT? Other things thrown in for good measure?)[/quote]

Op here. This was my question. Iready included?[/quote]

OP see the quote I posted. Just NNAT and CogAT.

Posters on this forum have claimed that their AARTs said it was a straight average of the CogAT composite score and the NNAT, but FCPS has not confirmed that. Theoretically it could be any calculation that combines the CogAT and NNAT. [b]It could also change from year to year (or even, if you want to be a conspiracy theorist, school to school)[/b].[/quote]

This is not conspiracy or fiction, “in pool” is based on local norms and absolutely changes year to year and by school under the new revised system.

4+ years ago “in pool” was countywide and the magic number was 132+ on NNAT OR CogAT, but that is no longer the case. the scores of the students at your specific elementary school determine the in-pool cutoff, which is top 10% at your school. [/quote]

To be fair, the 132 from 4 years ago had shifted as well. At one point in time it had been 132 composite score but then moved to a 132 in any of the sub categories.

The score has shifted because FCPS is trying to cast a wide net for who might need the challenge of AAP and whose parents are not referring. This is not an issue at some schools but it is at the less well off schools. The local norms allow the County to address the needs of the kids who are ahead at every ES, even the ones where ahead might be closer to grade level at other schools.

The answer to OPs question is no one knows how they develop the score for each school because FCPS has not told anyone how they develop the score for each school. What we do know is that it is suppose to capture the top 10% of the kids at each school. We don’t know if it is the average of the NNAT and CoGAT or of specific scores in the NNAT and CoGAT or one individual score being above a threshold for that school. We just don’t know. Which is why parents interested in AAP should parent refer because no one has a clue what the formula is for the local norms. [/quote]

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