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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like top 5% should definitely be in at CM. Top 10% is also likely. When you get to the 80th percentile, that's more dependent on which school your kid is at: how many CM classes are available and other students' scores.

If they're putting 60th percentile in CM, most of the kids in that school are probably lower SES and so the bar is much lower.
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Okay, so you are assuming a perfect bell curve at every school. Even if a school has 40% of kids in compacted math, that does not mean they are going down to the 60th percentile on MAP-M. [/quote]

I’m not making that assumption. Schools don’t have to fill every seat in CM. CM is supposed to be for students who can handle the accelerated instruction, as demonstrated by MAP and other criteria. So the school is not forced to dip into the 60th percentile. My argument is that because of local norming, lower SES schools may be allowing in 60th percentile students.

About the argument that high SES students’ parents almost force their 60th percentile kids into CM—that’s possible and I agree the school should get a backbone. 60th percentile is really not very good, and they are with students who are on top of the curriculum.[/quote]

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