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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of this will matter if you have a gifted kid (top 2%). [/quote]It is not top 10% of national testing.  It is top 10% of the individual school.  This area is very highly educated and some schools boundaries are extremely highly educated such that more than 20% of the students score above the 98th percentile. [/quote]

I get where you're coming from... but given the population density and sheer volume of kids... that math just isn't mathing statistically. I would believe a few points swing given the education level of the community... but 10? [/quote]

I recently saw an MCPS document that show the top 15% at a low farms school is roughly 95% nationally, but the top 15% at a high-FARMS school is around 60% nationally. I would imagine FCPS is similar. [/quote]

DP.  This is for standardized tests and not IQ tests.  20% of the kids at a high SES school are not "top 2% gifted."  They often can score in the top 2% on easily prepped tests like CogAT or on standardized achievement tests.  In FCPS, when so many kids are scoring above a 132 on the CogAT, it doesn't mean that the area is Lake Wobegon.  It just means that a lot of families are prepping for the CogAT.  [/quote]

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