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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you referring to the way schools are categorized by FARMs levels for the purpose of comparing students’ MAP scores for CES admissions?[/quote]

I'm guessing OP almost certainly was talking about that (also used for the criteria-based MS lottery).

MCPS uses 5 tiers of schools with roughly similar FARMS rates.  (Side note: the FARMS rates across the County are really high compared to the impression that many, especially on DCUM, may have.  Look at the data in the Superintendent's budget presentation -- 44.6% across the system this year!)  To my understanding, the last known public list of elementary schools by FARMS-rate tier was provided in response to an MPIA (essentially a state-level FOIA request) by the MCCPTA back in the 21-22 school year:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/120BRtShXf9_kQcNvKSxHKG4nJhnyTjL7/view

That referenced data from the fall of 2021, as MAP-M & MAP-R scores from that period were used in the criteria-based magnet MS lottery conducted in early 2022.  (The inclusion of prior spring MAP locally normed percentiles for Math didn't come until a later year when they realized that they'd then decided that kids taking accelerated Math be given the 6th grade variation of the test in 5th grade, creating an minor apples-to-oranges situation.)  Those same FARMS-rate tiers also were applied to the later CES lottery for that year, which was based on winter 2021-22 MAP scores (MAP-R only, for that).

It is known that the schools in each tier have shifted somewhat from that time.  MCPS makes a new tier list each year, but has not made that public after the above, to my knowledge.  Someone else may be able to point to a BOE presentation with more recent info.[/quote]

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