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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does PGCPS have more students taking Algebra 1 in 9th grade, so that they wouldn't show up in a middle school's average score?[/quote]

They don't have it broken down by race, but it looks like in MCPS around 60% of the Algebra 1 test takers are middle schoolers, while in PGCPS about 50% of Algebra 1 test takers are high schoolers, 25% are middle schoolers, and the other 25% are at schools that don't have either "middle" or "high" in the name (charter schools, I'm guessing? but no idea what level.)

MCPS definitely has a lot more kids doing Algebra 1 in 7th, though, judging by the Geometry numbers-- there's like 3000 MCPS kids taking the Geometry MCAP in middle school and only 10 taking the Geometry MCAP in PGCPS schools with "middle" in the name.

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Given how much MCPS outperforms PGCPS in math among Black students in the lower grades, my guess is that a lot of the gap here is pushing too many MCPS kids into Algebra 1 in 7th when they're not ready, whereas PGCPS gives them another year or two to prepare and then (unsurprisingly) more of them succeed.

(I wonder if this is partially due to the middle school magnet lottery process?  Do all/most of the kids in the math lottery pool get placed in Pre-Algebra in 6th and then go on to Algebra 1 in 7th, whether they're ready or not?)   [/quote]

MCPS MS math magnet is so tiny that nothing they do affects districtwide stats.

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Not the magnets themselves.  But isn't there supposed to be a consolation prize of "local enrichment" for everyone in the lottery pool who didn't get in (i.e. roughly the top 15% of kids in each middle school, regardless of their level of actual preparedness)?  For the humanities side it's HIGH-- for math is it pre-algebra?[/quote]

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