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For non-central schools, there is nothing to lose if they literally give every child 15 or 16 because about 50% of the kids decide to stay at their base school anyway (e.g., school bus, friendship issue...etc.).  However, for central schools, they have a lot more applicants from their own school because they have more of those smart kids and tiger parents, they can't give everyone 15 or 16 because they can't host everyone (generally 3-4 AAP classrooms per grade), they also have to take significant number of kids from other schools that are at least 4-5 other schools.  I think this alone explains a bit how competitive it might be at a central school to get 15 or 16.  [/quote]

It's a rare base school that retains 50% of its Level IV eligible kids!  Only about 10% of the LIV kids stay at my kids' base school.  The rest leave for the center.  Base schools have the lowest motivation to give high GBRS, since more eligible kids means losing more smart kids, which in turn decreases the base school's SOL pass rates.  Center schools lose nothing at all, since they would keep the same kids either way.  The only difference is the classroom the kids are placed in.

I would guess that centers give the most accurate GBRS.  They are probably better at evaluating which 2nd graders belong in the program and which ones are best served in gen ed, and they probably assign GBRS accordingly.  Base schools don't necessarily have as clear of a picture as to how advanced the AAP classrooms actually are.    [/quote]

Plus not all schools even have Local Level IV [/quote]

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