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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the poster who posted the spreadsheet with the numbers of kids classified as highly able. Do you know what the criteria was for being classified as highly able?

MCPS must have had a set of quantitative criteria for categorizing this many students. Too many for them to weed through kid by kid. I'd suspect that the classification "highly able" is much broader than people expect. It makes no sense that schools like Pyle and Frost were blocked but schools with an equal peer cohort of highly able students like SSIM and Sligo were not unless the kids at Frost/Pyle were mostly at the upper end of the highly able group and SSIM was at the lower end.

MCPS must have had some way of ranking students to select the "outliers", I don't understand why they just can't be transparent about what they did. MCPS is not a private company. Its a public school system and it owes the citizens who govern it transparency. [/quote]

I posted it and what it shows is that the five middle school clusters with the largest number of "qualified" students are Frost, Hoover, SSIMs, Pyle and Sligo.  I noted that we have heard from parents and from reputable sources such as MCCPTA that the CESs feeding these five clusters have seen the biggest drop in admits to the magnet middle schools.  Only 25% of the kids admitted to the middle school magnets will come from a CES and the CESs with the most high performing students had the worst outcomes, so only a couple of kids from each of the CESs with the most high performing students (Cold Spring/Oakview/Pinecrest) were able to secure spots.  
It really looks like MCPS used their peer cohort filter in a ham handed way.  If you happened to attend a school in a high performing middle school cluster you were less likely to receive a spot which means that there will be large numbers of highly gifted kids in home middle schools who will get just one enriched humanities course instead of 3 or 4 magnet courses at Eastern/ 1 enriched Math course instead of 3 magnet STEM courses at TPMS

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/MS%20Magnet%20Field%20Test%20Data%20by%20Sending%20MS.pdf

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