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Fair enough.  "Decimate" probably would have been more accurate than "cap."  Their intent was obvious. [/quote]

For class of 2025, there were 42 fewer kids admitted from previously "well"-represented MSs than in 2024.

“Decimate”?  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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42 is much worse than decimate, which means reduce by 10%.[/quote]

It’s exactly 10%. And the modern definition in English means a large percentage. 
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Where in the heck are you pullling your data from

https://www.fcag.org/tjstatistics.shtml

The big 4  2024/2025

Carson  82 down to 42
Longfellow 57 down to 28
Rocky Run  32 down to 24 
Cooper 33 down to 20

Overall 204 to 114 a 43% Decrease

Carson and Longfellow are basically sending more highly qualified STEM kids to their base school vs TJ

Can anyone explain how a 43% drop from the best middle schools is a good thing for a school designed for the best?????[/quote]

From the FCAG data.

2025	2024	delta	% change
				
underrep school	169	27	142	526%
well/over rep	366	408	-42	-10%
private	15	51	-36	-71%

Underrepresented schools 
https://www.fcag.org/Underrepresented%20Schools.xlsx
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And are you responding to the PP who is referring to the 4 big feeders? Or commingling data with schools beyond the 4 to get your desired outcome? #DATAMANIPULATION

[b]Carson[/b] 82 down to 42
[b]Longfellow[/b] 57 down to 28
[b]Rocky Run[/b] 32 down to 24
[b]Cooper[/b] 33 down to 20[/quote]

Not PP, but you're just focusing on different schools.  FCPS doesn't treat what you refer to as the "4 big feeders" as a separate category for any purposes, but does have a concept of "under-represented schools" that includes 10 of the county's middle/secondary schools and gave a boost to students applying from those schools for the Class of 2025.  [/quote]

There are no additional points to under repressed schools, but every middle school including the center schools that cover the entire region unlike base schools get the same 1.5% quota. I am not sure many in this forum really understand that if center schools do not exist center kids will go back to their base schools. [/quote]

For the Class of 2025, attending a "historically underrepresented school" gave you an "experience factor" boost.

That wouldn't affect the kids getting into TJ from a middle school based on the 1.5% quota, but would advantage students being admitted from the remaining pool of applicants.

I think people realize that, in many cases, kids will go back to their base schools if the center schools no longer exist (this doesn't apply to AAP centers like Cooper and Longfellow that don't have kids who reside outside the base boundaries).

But it's a big goal for them to say the number of kids getting into TJ from, say, Carson is declining.  Whether some of those same kids would get into TJ from Franklin if the AAP center at Carson was eliminated and the number of seats allocated to Franklin increased doesn't really matter to them.  [/quote]

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