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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Likely to be admitted to a gifted program? Or just like everyone else so fine in general ed?[/quote]

Gifted programs are lottery these days of the top 15% local norms. So if you're in the top 5% at a low farm school, you would be in the lottery pool.[/quote]

Umm, the top 15% at each grouping of schools they use for norming would be part of the lottery pool (assuming they meet the other criteria).  Isn’t that what local norming means???
Norming the scores based on a local group?  MCPS has said they norm based on FARMS rate… and has been consistent with 85 th percentile- so it’s the top 15% of each group, not 5% of one group, and a different percentage of another group.  The big question is how many groups are there? [/quote]

This information is publicly available - it may be hard to find, but it was posted on the MCPS GEC (Gifted Ed committee) Facebook page.  There is a list of all the schools at each FARMS rate tier (I think there are four....but don't quote me) and data showing what locally-normed percentile score was used at each tier.  As I recall the cut-off for the lowest-FARMS rate schools was somewhere around 93rd or 94th percentile. So it's a bit more than top 5%.  Also, it may be slightly different for math and humanities; it's been a while since I looked at it.  The published info is for the 2021-22 school year; I don't believe we have this year's data yet.  But it doesn't really change from year to year. [/quote]

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