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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I received my son's scores today (FCPS - Oakton pyramid).  What Composite(VQN) score is FCPS using this year as the cutoff?  The form does not show how he compared locally under the "Local Scores" section.[/quote]

You're going to have to ask AAP central office (aap@fcps.edu), because they prepared the pool and apparently shared their methodology with no one. Or you can put in a VFOIA request for it (https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/policies-regulations-and-notices/virginia-freedom-information-act-vfoia/freedom).

Is it ridiculous that the pool is a black box to everyone but Gatehouse? I think so.[/quote]

It's definitely frustrating as a parent but not really surprising when you think about it.  Think about what would happen if they published the norms.  There would be an immediate hierarchy at the center schools.  Kids would be saying things like, "Larla isn't as smart as me because she came from ([i]insert name of Title I school here[/i]) and my mom told me their pool cut-off was only 120. At ([i]insert name of high-SES school[/i]) you have to be [i][u]really[/u][/i] smart to get into AAP."  [/quote]

They could publish the methodology for determining norms (15% of the class based on local score, or based on national score, or whatever). They don't have to go "&lt;X&gt; ES: 139."

I mean for crying out loud they don't even share the local building norm on the mailed/backpacked Cogat report. For my older (in AAP kid) they had local percentiles that were county-wide. I remember because my kid's NV percentile looked dismal compared to the county.[/quote]

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