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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If this was what was done, which I think it was, then it wasn’t just separating the really high standard scores and inviting those students. MCPS looked holistically at students and their peer cohorts. If a kid was 150 in a school with a small group of 120s—then, yeah, he’s probably getting invited. If another kid is 150 with a large peer cohort in the 130s-140s—maybe not. If a third kid is a 150 with that same cohort of plenty of 140s and 150s but something stands out showing she is an outlier—maybe she gets selected.

The truth is there were kids from those schools with large peer cohorts who were invited. It just have been because they were outliers.[/quote]

This tracks with my experience with a middle schooler and a current CES kid - for both the CES and middle school magnet programs, the outliers were selected and it is easier to be an outlier at a more heterogeneous school.

The one thing I expect to see change in the coming year is more kids going from the CES into the middle school magnets. I really do think they messed that up last year, perhaps even inadvertently. They were clearly comparing CES kids to one another, rather than to their home school peer group, or even the incoming middle school peer group. That ended up hurting CES kids all over the county, not just at the highest performing clusters. [/quote]

Kid needed to be outlier for MS grouping, not within their CES.  That's a much higher hurdle. [/quote]

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