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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it normal to score a lot higher in MCPS? We're at a low-FARM school, and my child got 98% in the winter assessment. Will this usually drop significantly after locally normalized?
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They don't give you your locally normed score, but yes, the cutoff for "top 15%" is a fair bit higher than the 85th percentile at low FARMS schools.  Not as high as the 98th percentile, though, so your kid should be in the lottery.[/quote]

My older kid was 97% winter MAP in third grade in a low-FARM school and was not placed in the lottery. Not sure if he got As though, he probably did not. He has never liked reading and writing and struggled with written class work at that age. Nevertheless, he was placed in the advanced reading track at his home school and after some initial struggle, did really well there.

Younger kid, current third grader, is consistently 99% and As and adores reading and writing, so I assume he will placed in lottery, but also that he will not get a spot. Few kids from our home school go to CES - not sure if they don't get spots or just choose not to go. [b](They don't provide buses so we probably would not accept a spot for that reason alone.[/b] With our commutes, we can't drive there, and unlike our home school, it's too far to walk.)[/quote]

They do provide transportation, they call it "central stop", it may not be walkable, but there are bus routes for all the CES sites.  A lot of them are at elementary schools. [/quote]

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