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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The in pool scores for higher SES school is significantly higher than lower SES schools.  It seems like FCPS is trying to keep students from wealthier schools from accessing AAP.  Students scoring in the 99th percentile are not “in pool” at some elementary schools.  I can understand lowering the “in pool” requirement for schools that traditionally have less AAP students; but it makes absolutely no sense to try to keep students scoring in the 98th/99th percentile from accessing A
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FCPS is trying to “dumb down” the higher performing high schools by lowering the academics for students starting in 3rd grade.  Less kids in AAP will mean lower I-ready/SOL scores, less kids taking advanced math in middle school, overall less prepared students for AP/DE classes in high school.  [/quote]

I think you are looking at it from the wrong end of the of the telescope.
[b]There is a cutoff (it's usually the 98th percentile or higher on both tests, if you didn't make the cutoff with one score in the 99th percentile, it's probably because you were below the 98th percentile on one of the tests) that is objectively applied to everyone.[/b]
But there are some schools where there aren't enough kids making the cutoff to fill even one class so to fill those spaces, they lower the cutoff for those schools.
They aren't applying a higher standard to your kid.  They are applying a lower standard to kids from crappy schools.

The cutoff at the richest school in the county is not higher than the cutoff at Greenbriar west with a 20% FARM rate.  But the cutoff starts to drop when you have a school where half the kids are ESL and 2/3rds are FARM students.

If you want that lower cutoff, you have to attend a crappier school.

Or you can just do a parent referral.[/quote]

PP, can you share where the info in bold comes from?   Because unless there is misinformation in the "in pool" thread:  that parent's kid in Lake Braddock pyramid reported the child had 138 on NNAT and 136 on CogAT and didn't make the pool. Both these scores are in the 99th percentile.  [/quote]

I think it was on this site years ago.
Are any of the cogat subelement scores below 133?[/quote]

I don't know the sub scores because they weren't posted (maybe the original poster Lake Braddock will be following and can fill in), but the overall score of 136 on CogAT is in the 99th percentile.  It makes no sense that a kid whose scores are in the 99th percentile wouldn't even be in the pool to be evaluated.  [/quote]

I'm not sure the subelements matter either.  I am grasping for explanations.
It seems weird that 99th percentile on both tests doesn't get into pool.[/quote]

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