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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Under the current magnet pool construction paradigm, both for CES and criteria-based MS magnets, there is an adjustment to the MAP score criteria for students receiving services -- EML/ESOL, FARMS, IEP and 504.  Instead of needing a locally normed 85th %ile score, a locally normed 70th %ile is required.

With a significant proportion of IEPs & 504s coming from those with the means to identify, formally, conditions and pursue associated accommodations, this is one of the ways that MCPS has left the magnet selection system vulnerable to gaming.  That's not to say it is a principal reason that MCPS might push back on a designation; it's more of an afterthought, if even that.

The timing of designation vs. applicability to magnet lottery pool creation (or appeal) is unclear.  There are also the other criteria (grades, reading level), and the whole paradigm could always change -- there is some possibility of that this coming year with a review scheduled for this spring.[/quote]

This 70th percentile claim is a guess, no where has such info been confirmed or published. In fact I know a kid with a 504 plan and 92nd percentile nationally that didn’t get in the lottery. Pretty sure even on a moderate farms school that’s about 70th percentile.[/quote]

It's not 70th percentile nationally; it's 70th percentile locally normed; that could be higher or lower than 70th percentile nationally depending on the FARMs rate of the school.[/quote]

I didn’t say it was 70th nationally. Please read my post again. However I did say that the 70th percentile cut off for kids with IEPs was fabricated, because it was and also is not borne out by experience.[/quote]

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