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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In LCPS, test is given to advanced 5th graders who take the 8th grade SOL.  If they score 82% they will be eligible to take Algebra in 6th grade.  This year, that test allows them to take prealgebra in 6th grade.

The cutoff is very high, and no one who takes algebra in 6th needs to take the class again.[/quote]
Thank you for this information. I'll share information I've received directly from VDOE in 2019 when I inquired about the possibility of taking a higher-than-grade level SOL.

"The section on [url=https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title8/agency20/chapter131/section30/]Student Achievement Expectations[/url] in the [url=https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title8/agency20/chapter131/]Standards of Accreditation[/url] require that students are assessed at the conclusion of the highest level of instruction they receive. Therefore, a student may only be assessed at a higher grade level if he or she is enrolled in an accelerated course above grade level. If the student is on grade level then the student would take the SOL for the grade level content for which he or she is enrolled."

I take it that those students count as being enrolled in an accelerated course above grade level (and not that LCPS ignores VDOE).

Do all such "advanced 5th graders" take the 8th grade SOL or is this by student/parent choice?

Also, this is just my personal assessment, I do not find 82% a very high cutoff, provided the test is still like [url=https://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/released_tests/2010/test10_math8.pdf]this example[/url]. I would personally allow at most 3 wrong, not 9. Unless the test is given under a strict time limit (< 1h).

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