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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son did not get in the pool for the CES. His MAP-R scores were in the 94 percentile for Fall 2021 and 90 percentile for Winter 2021. While I don't think he is suited/qualified for the CES, I am hoping he will get into the ELC (His school offers the ELC.)

How hard is it to get into the ELC if a student was not in the CES pool?

Will the Spring Map-R be used for the selection?

If a student did not get selected for the ELC at the 4th grade, can the student still have a chance for the 5th grade?

Thanks in advance.

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Even at one of the higher-performing schools, those scores should've been sufficient for the CES pool. The bar isn't that high and MCPS scores are within a few percent of national norms according to the data they've shared. There are other reasons a student might be disqualified like getting less than an A in.a relevant subject like writing. I would appeal the selection or lack thereof because this seems off and definitely contact the school about ELC.[/quote]

This is not true. Call MCPS and get the facts - at the lowest FARMS schools, a student needed a winter MAP-R score in the 96th percentile and higher to qualify for the pool. My DD's 95th percentile winter MAP-R was "locally normed" down to the 83rd percentile and she didn't qualify for the pool solely because of that (need to be 85+ after local norming).[/quote]

MCPS publishes this data. The difference was a few percentage points and even the differences between schools was not that significant. Again this is public record. I know it may not be what you want to hear but those are the facts.[/quote]

Ya, I've seen this too from the county MAP averages vs national on the docs in ParentVue (2-3 points) and the number of high-achievers identified at various schools that was published a few years back. I think someone even reposted that here a week or two ago. TLDR many schools throughout the county had a similar numbers of high-achievers but some people feel very threatened by this realization.[/quote]

yes, they tell you you're wrong because they feel very threatened...or they just called MCPS and spent 20 minutes on the phone with the office that designed the local norming process for purposes of the CES lottery this year and heard the facts directly from them that are specifically related to what we're talking about here, rather than trying to piece together publicly available data, some of which you admit is data published years ago about "high achievers" that was randomly posted on DCUM a couple weeks ago[/quote]

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