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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does 6th grade math placement work? My 4th grader is, for lack of a better way to put it, a total math whiz and bored in his compacted math class. The curriculum site lists Algebra 1 as an "other option" for 6th grade. Is that something a kid could test into, or what?[/quote]

To answer your first question, the office of accelerated and enriched instruction conducts a universal review of 5th graders to determine who is eligible to be considered for middle school magnets. The last few years they have changed the criteria of what they look at in terms of tests and grades, so it’s hard to know what data they will use to evaluate your child because it will possibly be different next year. Once your child is evaluated, if he meets whatever criteria threshold, he is automatically placed into AIM for 6th grade (and may or may not gain access to the magnet). Around this time of year, 5th grade teachers are also asked to recommend what math pathway they feel is the appropriate placement for each student. Some middle schools use these recommendations as a starting point for the articulation placements. Other middle schools receive info on which students the office of accelerated and enriched instruction identified in that earlier universal review and just auto-enroll kids based on that criteria, leaving leeway to be flexible if a student is near the cut off or teacher recs/winter data support a different placement decision. It is also my understanding that the AEI office also sends middle schools data on incoming students based on local norms, meaning MAP percentiles are recalculated based on the students in that particular incoming school’s population. So the answer is, it depends on your middle school and how they approach the process. You can contact the middle school counseling team to ask how your particular school places kids. [/quote]

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