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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both sides are correct.  I'm the PP with the AART who said that each year, around 5 kids from their school get rejected who should have been accepted.  Alongside those 5 kids are 25 kids who belonged in AAP and got in.  The 5 wrongfully rejected kids generally get in on appeal, get in the following year, or get principal placed.

It stinks when your kid is one of the ones who has to deal with appeals or applying the next year when they should have been admitted.  By the end of third grade, after two rounds of applications and appeals, the number of kids who belong in AAP but keep getting rejected is very small.  [/quote]

Every year, our school sends less than 5 kids to the center.  While I don't think our school is the norm, I don't think we're an extreme outlier either.  In a class of 75-100 2nd graders, sending 25 or 30 kids seems like a lot.  [/quote]

15-20% of FCPS 2nd graders kids are admitted into AAP.  Your school on average should have 11-20 kids get accepted into AAP.  If it's only 5 per grade, then your school must be a lower SES one or be drastically underperforming.

My kids' school has 6 classrooms per grade level and around 150 kids.  It is expected that 22-30 kids would be admitted to AAP using the 15-20% rate.  [/quote]

I thought it was 10% were accepted for 3rd grade and then the number grows in later years due to Principal Placement and kids applying in later grades. Our school has about 90 second graders and the AART said about 8-10 kids are accepted into AAP each year. Only 5 or so go to the Center, there is a mix of Gen Ed and Language Immersion kids who stay, but mainly LI kids stay.

Just because a small number of kids move to the Center doesn't mean that that is the number of kids accepted. There are parents who choose to keep their kids at the base school even when it doesn't have AAP. There are different reasons for that, sometimes it is language immersion but many times it is because parents simply prefer the kid at the base school. We have kids return from the Center to our Base every year, they cannot rejoin the LI program but the kids just don't like the Center for whatever reason and they come back to the base school. [/quote]

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