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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it was Pyle. Where's that chart ...[/quote]

NP. It was 100% not Pyle. Pyle had an extremely high percentage of students, much higher than the other Bethesda, Potomac schools that were "highly able." It was kind of shocking to see the difference actually.
The lower number was Westland.[/quote]

So ... you're wrong, and the opposite is true. Frost and Hoover MS both have a higher number of highly able students, as measured by MAP-R for example, than Pyle EVEN THOUGH they have two-thirds the student population (each at just around 1000 students). Those are the raw numbers. Percentage-wise, both Frost and Hoover have significantly higher percentages of highly able students than Pyle does.[/quote]

While the person remembering Pyle had a high percentage of students was wrong...
I think the numbers can be interpreted in different ways. Yes, Frost and Hoover have a higher percentage of students. But in terms of raw numbers it's similar and I think most people care more about the raw numbers if you are talking about cohorted classes like AIM and HIGH. Those students will be grouped together so you really just care about the total number of students. [/quote]

Unless a school, such as Pyle, eliminates the cohorts by putting every student in HIGH.[/quote]

Yes, Pyle puts everyone in to avoid complaints. But while the whole cohort piece may seem irrelevant to outsiders, they do have a real top cohort that they’re aware of internally and they do keep those students together. They just don’t tell the broader parent population that part. But yes, everyone can take HIGH.[/quote]

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