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[quote=Anonymous]Your scores are good but not spectacular. The issue is it’s difficult for a kid coming in from outside the district - whether that’s a different public school district or private school - to get into AAP. The committee has a certain way that they want the recommendations and teacher forms filled out, that the 2nd grade FCPS teachers (who are the ones doing all this since full time AAP starts in 3rd) understand and others don’t. It’s not fair, especially with the transient nature of this area with lots of kids moving in and out, but that’s the business.

Additionally, Archer is an AAP center, so if that happens to be your neighborhood school, you won’t be able to be principal placed into AAP with high grades, unfortunately. So that’s another complicating factor.

Now for the somewhat good news, the difference between AAP and elementary gen ed in the core subject of ELA has blurred with the intro of the new ELA curriculum, Benchmark. There are lots of issues with Benchmark in the upper grades 3+, not going to get into that here. But AAP and Gen Ed are both using Benchmark. That leaves math as the main differentiator. I’m not sure how AAP centers do it or Louise Archer in particular. But at my kids’ LLIV school, they have kids switching class for math starting in 3rd when they start advanced math. Some schools start advanced math in 5th. So if the math grades and scores are good, you could try to push for inclusion in the advanced math portion and get the benefit of the main differentiator in the curriculum. But I’m not sure how much of an option this is at AAP centers because the rules are different vs. local AAP schools. [/quote]

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