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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Currently in 3rd grade.  No application needed -- centrally reviewed.  Locally-normed 85th percentile (see exception, below) on Winter MAP-R (window currently open).  (Fall, or best of Fall and last Spring, now for math, is used in 5th grade for criteria-based MS magnets.)  Grades of A in 2nd marking period (current one) for Writing and Social Studies.  2nd marking period reading level marked as on or above ("ABV").  All criteria must be met.

Locally normed 85th %ile means that they take all the elementaries and determine their FARMS-rate tranche -- 5 of those from low-FARMS to high-FARMS -- determine the MAP RIT score that was met or exceeded by the top 15% of scorers from the population of those schools, and then let all such scorers from those schools through that particular criterion-gate (still need the grades, etc.).  That changes from year to year.  For low-FARMS schools, that could end up being a national 95th %ile or higher, as those schools tend to have a large proportion of high scorers.  Local norming is seen as a best practice to make comparisons across dissimilar populations.

For those receiving services (FARMS, EML, 504, IEP) the criterion becomes a locally-normed 70th %ile.[/quote]

Apologies.  The grade criteria reported should have been an A in Reading AND an A in either Writing OR Social Studies.

For the poster, above, who asked where this comes from:

CES FAQ -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/127SBBarwO1ox4Soalug9dg3HdIe7f5UNqFB0NHIyQ88

MCPS report to the BOE --
https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/boe/meetings/memorandum/09/uploadedfiles/boe/meetings/memorandum/230119-ap-capstone-magnet-prog-12-06-2022-01-c-d-e-bd.pdf

This is from last year and will be updated for this year, but he criteria are unlikely to change until the planned review this spring on criteria-based programs that OSA proposed to the BOE just as this school year was starting.

Related to that 504 and hitting the mark, be careful about assumptions of the locally normed percentiles for your school's FARMS-rate tranche.  Though it's based on the reported RIT score, it's not the same as the national percentile shown on the MAP report -- see the methodology, above.

As far as having others think your child got a break that theirs didn't, I hope that they are viewed for their own worth and not for a number.  I hope that others can consider the adversities that the "receiving services" moniker is supposed to represent, even if the associated adjustment is something of a hammer instead of a scalpel, and don't assume that that's necessarily what got anyone in.  I certainly hope nobody puts you in a position of having to defend your child's abilities.[/quote]

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