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[quote=Anonymous]🚨 What the Data Shows at Great Falls Elementary (Public FCPS Data)

📉 Level IV Advanced Academic participation at Great Falls ES dropped from 16.9% to 8.1% (2020–2025)
➡️ nearly a 50% reduction in students receiving Level IV services

📉 Levels II–III participation (the advanced academic pipeline) collapsed from 33.0% to 20.0%
➡️ a 13 percentage-point drop in students receiving advanced instruction

📉 Combined advanced academic participation fell from ~45% to ~28% in just three years
➡️ meaning almost 1 in 5 students lost access to advanced academic services

🚨 From 2022–23 to 2024–25, Great Falls ES experienced the largest combined decline in advanced academic participation among all Cooper Middle School feeder elementary schools

⚖️ Other feeder elementary schools remained relatively stable during the same period
➡️ declines at Great Falls ES were not mirrored elsewhere

📈 Cooper Middle School increased Level IV participation while Great Falls ES declined
➡️ confirming this is not a pyramid-wide or countywide trend

🧩 A new Advanced Academic Resource Teacher (AART) began at Great Falls ES in the 2023–24 school year
➡️ this is noted for timing context only, but raises reasonable questions about what changed at the school

❓ Taken together, the data raises a serious question:
➡️ Why did Great Falls Elementary experience one of the steepest declines in advanced academic services while peer schools remained stable and the receiving middle school expanded advanced academics?[/quote]

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