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[quote=Anonymous]For those that are shocked by difficulty in admission, doesn't this FAQ from MCPS cover a lot of it:

My child scores for the various criteria are in the 90+ percentiles, why did my child not get
selected?
This year, the process looked at all fifth grade elementary students in 80 elementary schools. This
changed our examination of student need for magnet programs to considering over 4,000 Grade 5
students – a sharp increase to the previous traditional parent application process which yielded a look
at fewer students, 700 to 800 applicants total.
This year’s process included looking at the Grade 5 report card, reading level, math enrichment access,
MAP-R and MAP-M, PARCC performance in reading and math, student questionnaire, student voice
and the outside assessment. An additional variable of looking at students through the lens of comparable
academic peer group within a school accessing enriched and acceleration instruction in core content
areas, was part of the process.
Your child, while high performing, has an academic peer group within her local school and doesn’t
present as an outlier within that group. We encourage you to work with your local middle school
principal for programming and grouping practices.[/quote]

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