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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can figure out the gifted percentages at each school from the APS budget proposal. There are school profiles in the back of that document. What really stands out is how inconsistent the percentages are, even across schools with similar parent demographics. For example, Discovery only has 17% tagged, while Nottingham is 21% and Tuckahoe is 23%. Another set of schools with comparable demographics are Ashlawn/Glebe/McKinley, where Ashlawn has 16% tagged, McKinley has 19% tagged, and Glebe has 25% tagged. (In fact, Glebe Elementary has consistently had the highest percentage of kids tagged of all the elementary schools for as long as I can remember.)

My sense from talking to parents at other schools is that some principals really keep down the number of kids tagged before the Cogat is given in 4th grade, while others are more generous about allowing self-referrals in K and 1st even before the NNAT is given in 2nd grade. As someone said above, once the Cogat is given in 4th grade, there ends up being a lot more kids tagged. I would not be surprised if some elementary schools have 50% of their 5th grade class tagged at GT in at least one subject, even if the overall school-wide percentages are only around 20%. There are a lot of smart kids who get missed for identification pre-Cogat because they just have more laid back personalities (or more laid back parents) and are therefore viewed as not needing more challenging work. I suspect this is why APS is moving to push the Cogat down to 3rd grade now. By the time the 4th graders take the Cogat and are formally identified, elementary school is almost over. [/quote]

Here’s the most recent GSAC report I could (quickly) find with the data all in one place.

https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2016-17-GSAC-Recommending-Year-Report.pdf

Why Glebe would increase what was already a very high percentage of kids receiving gifted services at the time of this report is curious to me.

On a related note, I do get the sense that some parents of kids who weren’t identified after taking the NNAT prep them hard for the Cogat and generally push for identification if “missed” in that grade 2 window. The 5th grade identification numbers at some schools are insane.

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