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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay.  There are some truly tiny schools in FCPS.  It would make sense that smart kids in very tiny schools might need AAP to have access to advanced math or above grade level reading groups, since they would lack critical mass otherwise.  The same is not true for base schools with over 100 kids per grade, since they would still have a critical mass of advanced students.

It wouldn't be an issue of base schools giving higher GBRS and center schools giving lower, so much as it would be an issue of very small schools giving higher GBRS and larger base schools not needing to do so.  [/quote]

but even then, assuming that abilities of students in a school are normally distributed, as it should be, a very small school with good students will still have a peer group. IF a student is really an outlier, then that student will get a high GBRS, not because he/she comes from a small school, but because the student is an outlier. the only case where that may make sense is if all students were GBRS 4-9 and a kid or 2 are 12/13 and you want to give them a chance. But we don't observe such skewness in the population, especially in more affluent areas of fx county. I bet the areas where schools have such few kids are affluent.[/quote]

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