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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know MCPS doesn’t publicize this info, but does anyone know the approximate cutoff for MAP scores to be placed in the lottery pools for the MS magnets like Eastern/TPMS/Clemente etc?

95th?  90th?

Thanks![/quote]

The percentiles given in prior posts, which can be seen as the ballpark estimate you requested, have been for a past year, 2021-22, per the MCPS response to the MCCPTA GEC request.  Within the current lottery eligibility criteria, the percentile can (and did) change a bit each year for each school based on:

1) Whether the school's FARMS rate changed enough to put them in a new local-norming group (e.g., from low-moderate FARMS to low FARMS), and

2) The locally normed 85th percentile RIT score for that group.  These also can be different between MAP-R, for the Humanities magnet, and MAP-M, for the Math magnet.

A change in the first factor likely would make more of a difference than a change in the second.  They also could go with a higher locally normed target percentile (e.g., 90th instead of 85th).

There is a referenced, but unspecified, lower local norm threshold for students receiving services (individual FARMS, IEP, 504, EML); board docs indicate it was 70th percentile for the CES lottery last year, but doesn't specify the MS lottery percentile.

The precise answers aren't yet established for this year, and probably won't be made known by MCPS even when they are without an MPIA request.

For reference, local norming takes the percentage of students in the grade across the county who score at least at the target national percentile, per 2020 NWEA norms (norms won't be updated for another 2 years), and then identifies the RIT score met or exceeded for each local-norming FARMS-rate group by the same percentage of students in that grade [i]at schools within that group[/i].[/quote]

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