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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone successfully been able to have their child moved up a level in math and if so, what did you do? Student is in fourth grade AAP[/quote]

Probably a bad idea, but acceleration is available at the wealthier schools[/quote]
acceleration is available at all schools including the worst performing fcps schools, except there is not much interest in math as much as sports.  Bottom performing schools are also wealthy when it comes to sports interests.    [/quote]

Strange, our child checked all of the boxes for acceleration to be able to take Algebra in 6th grade and no one from the school talked to us about it. We choose not to pursue it, we did not think he needed to be three years ahead in math, but no one at the school mentioned it was even a possibility. We were at a school with about 10% FARMs rate.

FCPS does not actively promote advanced math as an option at most schools. I am sure there are a few schools where it happens frequently enough that the parents there think it is commonly available but even those schools are under 10 students, I would guess that there might be an occasional school with 5 kids in Algebra 1 in 6th grade.

There were 40 6th graders who took the Algebra 1 SOL in 2021
There were 22 6th graders who took the Algebra 1 SOL in 2022
There were 31 6th graders who took the Algebra 1 SOL in 2023
There were 25 6th graders who took the Algebra 1 SOL last year.

This is not a regular path.
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And every 6th grader I've ever had in my algebra 1 class has had some blip in their elementary sequence--a private school stint where the school let the family pick where to put the kid, homeschool where the kid did 5 years of math in 3 years, out of country transfer from where the sequence is different.

While I am sure there are a handful of FCPS-grown 6th graders in algebra 1, I'd wager many (most?) of them come from outside the system to get that far ahead. FCPS is not proactively accelerating kids to algebra 1 in elementary.

--MS algebra teacher[/quote]

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