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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the latest on HS Criteria Magnet programs

This year’s Pandemic Plan for the high school magnet admission process will continue using multiple measures and professional review committees. Multiple criteria will include pre-COVID and 2020 data such as report card grades, reading level, external assessments (Measures of Academic Progress-Reading and Measures of Academic Progress-Mathematics) and student services (students who receive services in ESOL—English for Speakers of Other Languages, FARMS—Free and Reduced-price Meals System, IEP—Individualized Education Plan and or 504 plan. Due to limitations with in-person instruction and test security, the Cognitive Abilities Assessment (CogAT) and scored essay will not be administered. In addition, as a result of conditions associated with virtual-only instruction, teacher recommendations will not be part of the process this year. Students with incomplete data and private/home schooled students will be considered in the review.[/quote]

So, grades, MAP, and FARMS/IEP/ESOL status.  I hope they didn't get a lot of applications.  I have no idea how they'll be able to differentiate between kids with this.[/quote]
My guess is, they'll come up with a MAP/GPA benchmark and consider everyone with scores higher than that for a lottery. Isn't it how TJ in Virginia is now handling admissions? Everyone with a GPA over a certain number is eligible to participate in the lottery but that lottery isn't school blind, it is set within school clusters so kids only compete with others from their cluster. That - at least, theoretically - increases equity within the district.
At least, that was the idea at TJ a couple of months ago. [/quote]

Yeah, but (at least according to PP), MCPS has specifically said that the ES and MS processes will use a lottery, but they haven't said that for HS.  They also say the process is school blind, so I don't know how they could use cluster.[/quote]

+1 MCPS already stated that there is no lottery for HS. However, the process can still be school blind but also pick a number of kids from a cluster or school. School blind may only apply to the review committee. In other words, the reviewers may not know the school or name of the student; however, earlier in the process applications could be separated into groups by different criteria and reviewers instructed to pick X amount of students from each group. [/quote]

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