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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just found out the GBRS, 12.  NNAT is 126, FxAT is 92 (parent referral) with Verbal 99 and other two in the mid-to-high 70's.  Thoughts?[/quote]

With all due respect, you have a very bright kid, who's likely a good reader.  Unless there's something special you're not mentioning here, I don't get why he or she should qualify for AAP.   Mid to high 70s, and one of these, presumably is in math, aren't center scores, and I suspect your child might not be able to keep up with many of the others.  I think you'd find loads of children still in the base schools with similar or higher scores.  Sorry to be so blunt, but in FCPS this seems above average. [/quote]

Well, the overall was 92nd percentile and 15% of the kids end up in AAP so I find it hard to believe that there will be "loads" of kids with similar or higher scores. [/quote]

You would be surprised.  One of the reasons they changed to the FxAT was because the county has a higher proportion of smart kids.   And since there are so many, the suggested cutoff is 95% FxAT and 132 for NNAT. Sure some kids don't do well on standardized test or group tests, but what I have seen as that's precisely the problem.

Why should 15% of FCPS kids need to go to another school when there are plenty of other smart kids in their own base school?   And yes, many with higher scores... I know this both from what teachers have told me and what I have seen this with my kids (who are in both GT and Gen. Ed).  Why should one kid be in an AAP center because his parents pushed and perhaps even paid to have him tested again and a similarly bright child kept at his base school?   But then if you put all these kids in the center you have a much higher percentage than 15.

I think parents on the whole have gotten a little too nutty about the whole AAP program when basically most of their kids could get an excellent education at any FCPS school. [/quote]

Level III at the base school is intended to provide challenge in one or maybe two areas of strength.  Level IV at the Center is intended to provide challenge in all four areas of strength.

The issue seems to be lack of consistency of Level III at the base school.[/quote]

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