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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have always been told that what is at stake is the 1st quarter grade of the 5th grade year.  DC's teacher just also said to us recently that it is the main grade in the subject that is considered (not the subgrades).  Has anyone else heard the same or different?[/quote]

That is what has been used for the past 3 years. Prior to that, they used grades from 4th grade. They didn’t notify anyone (students, teachers, parents) that they were changing the criteria until after they conducted the review and sent out lottery results after winter break that year. So those 5th graders did not know that quarter 1 was the quarter that mattered until it was way too late. All to say that they can change the criteria at any time, they have a history of being opaque, etc. and they don’t seem to feel the need to actually communicate to families what the review process will include until they’ve already completed it.

Also, certain years kids seem to get only one offer from one magnet with no one winning the lottery from both, and other years it seems as though the lottery is run so that kids get offers from both at the same time (if in pool) and can choose. It’s never been explained.

Oh and don’t forget there is a set aside for kids in bounds for the school. A big chunk of seats are reserved for students in the zone. [/quote]
Do you know if the set aside seats are included in the total seats available in each magnet? Or do they set aside a certain percent of the total seats?[/quote]

The local seats are in addition to the published number of seats available. Eg at TPMS they have said for years that there are 100 seats per year. There are also another 25 seats available to kids who would be at the school anyway[/quote]

Right. So let’s say there are 250 rising 6th graders at TPMS and approximately 35-40 of them would be in the lottery pool based on their criteria. Those 35-40 kids are in their own lottery for 25 seats, so pretty good odds. The other 1200 rising 6th graders in the pool are in a lottery for 100 spots. [/quote]

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