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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We know that in the past two years, DCPS students represent a small minority of semi-finalists:

- In 2018/19, 4 DCPS students of the 37 semi-finalists, equaling 10%
   - In 2019/20, [b]9 DCPS students of the 55 semi-finalists, equaling 16%[/b]

In this email string, an analysis showed that about 20% of the semi-finalists from the private schools from 2018/19 are actual DC residents, and 80% are MD or VA residents.  Would that mean that about 30% of all the semi-finalists are actual DC residents, and 70% are from MD and VA?

Some points to share:

Cut off scores and criteria for semi-finalists award are not standardized across the nation. Smaller, lower scoring states are favorably weighted over larger higher scoring states.  DC has the highest cut off score in the country. If the cutoff score was lowered, would more DCPS students would qualify to meet more of the national numbers?

While DCPS student residents are serving as the denominator of entrants to determine the number of semi-finalists, the beneficiaries are disproportionately students from MD and VA attending some of the most elite schools in the country.  Is this a matter of DCPS resident students essentially “subsidizing” the elite out of towners?[/quote]

Go to page 1 of the thread. 39 NMSF in most recent batch. 4 from public schools. Do you have different data?

2 DCPS (1 each at SWW and Wilson) and 2 charter (1 at BASIS, 1 at Latin) are NMSF from the class of 2020. My math says that's 11%.

I would love to know whether any of the DC resident finalists form private schools attended a DCPS for elementary or middle. But I really don't think this is a great way to judge the quality of schools, public or private. [/quote]

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