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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you need the assigned middle school? It's really spread out this year and releasing that information would be a violation of privacy for much of the student population since it could easily lead to student/score discovery.
Then again, this is about you and your "sour grapes"--not the process.[/quote]

In quite a few of our students are the sole student or one of only 2 or 3 from their ES. That information would definitely be identifying. [/quote]

Yes, because so few were admitted from the W feeders. So give the number of students admitted from each home ES (I can tell you exactly 0 were admitted from my 10-ranked home ES), and then give a list of test scores of admitted students that are not broken down. Would be very helpful information for parents whose kids might be interested in the magnet. If no-one or only 1 is getting in from a home ES then you're clear your chances are virtually nil. Test scores would give you a range, though I suspect they will be quite variable.[/quote]

And who exactly ranked your ES a 10?

Great Schools, you know for across the board high achieving performance, including PARCC--one of the criteria the magnets also consider. Most schools feeding into this particular CES, the most competitive, are 10 ranked ESs. Those kids competed against other kids in some of the best schools in the county to get into the CES that is the hardest to get into. Yet 95% of them were deemed unworthy to attend the magnet MSs due to "peer cohort." They had 5 PARCC scores, 99% everything test scores, and straight As (or close to) at the most competitive CES in the county. If the curricula were the same, that would be fine. But they're not even close, as the poster who put up the Eastern reading list, has shown. If universal screening captured students with similar (not necessarily identical!) stats in under-achieving schools, fine. BUT MCPS WILL NOT RELEASE THE MEDIAN SCORES, so parents are rightly skeptical that the same rigor was used to assess all students.

Not anyone assessing students for admission into the MS magnets.

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