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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September. 
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.[/quote]

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh. [/quote]

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....[/quote]

They don't use PARCC for class placement then? What's the point?[/quote]

I think there would be an argument against using PARCC for class placement because of equity. Not all kids take it, plus what is the goal? To group the more advanced students? DCPS is anti-tracking so of course they don't do this -- if schools do customized class placement, the goal will be to get a mix of kids at all levels in the hopes that the more advanced kids in class will help bring the lagging kids up. I also think any customized class placement tends to be more focused on behavior than academics at the elementary level, with the goal of trying to avoid giving any one teacher a particularly challenging class and to avoid highly combustible student combos.

Individual PARCC scores may be used to identify candidates for an acceleration program (tutoring or after school programming) or if you have a handful of students who are more advanced than their grade cohort, maybe to set out opportunities to pull out and do math or reading with the next grade up for part of the day. But I've never heard of a school using PARCC for class placement.[/quote]

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