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[quote=Anonymous]There is no set score. You ask the middle school math coordinator to test your child, and if they feel the potential is there, they will approve the switch.

However some MCPS clusters try to discourage this practice.

At Westland 5 years ago, the math coordinator gave my kid an algebra test (the content taught in Algebra 1), and because she got a few wrong answers out of several pages of questions, he refused to let her into the class. Essentially the bar was to have already mastered the material taught in the class you were asking to attend! It was obviously set up for the kids to be refused entry.

Due to the pandemic, we switched my kid to the Virtual Academy of MCPS, where they were happy to enroll her in Algebra 1 in 6th grade, and then she returned to Westland in 7th grade, in Honors Geometry. She was bused to BCC, along with two other kids, to take Algebra 2 in 8th.

She's getting straight As in her accelerated track at BCC. Academics have never been a problem for her.

I resent that Westland math coordinator, who apparently refused quite a lot of kids that year, because that was the year they switched to a lottery system for the middle school magnet, and as a result, some strong STEM kids didn't get a spot and tried to find acceleration in their home middle schools. And now I don't think the Virtual Academy exists any more.[/quote]

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