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[quote=Anonymous]-They used three SES bands to come up with the MCPS score. Your child was placed in the SES band based on his or her school.

-For each band each national percentile score should map to one or close to one MCPS percentile score.

-EXCEPT for 99th percentile national kids. Depending on the SES band you may see a large range of MCPS scores for these 99th percentile kids.

-MCPS scores, because of how they only tested about half the grade, should be lower than national scores

-The bigger the spread between the national and MCPS score the higher performing the SES band.

-Don't get caught up with the MCPS score. You child may have a 60th percentile score but still be one of the highest performing in his or her school. Think about it this way: If you take the top 100 students in MCPS and assign them some kind of "top student" percentile only one of those kids will be in the 99th percentile. The 100th student by ranking will be a 1 percentile student but in reality he's the 100th best kid in 3rd grade in MCPS out of 12,000 students or however many there are this year.[/quote]

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