Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe Teacher referrals are more common at Title I schools then anywhere else. They are meant to capture the bright kid who did not test well but who Teachers think could do well in AAP. I suspect that it was more common when there was a County wide in-pool score and there were kids who Teachers thought would do well in AAP or could use AAP who fell under the 132 in-pool score that was the norm for a while.

If you pull up the 2020 review they have data broken out by pathway. There were some teacher referrals and even one self referral in the SECOND GRADE group. I don't even know how (or why) a kid would refer themselves to AAP at 7-8 instead of a parent.

Anonymous wrote:I believe Teacher referrals are more common at Title I schools then anywhere else. They are meant to capture the bright kid who did not test well but who Teachers think could do well in AAP. I suspect that it was more common when there was a County wide in-pool score and there were kids who Teachers thought would do well in AAP or could use AAP who fell under the 132 in-pool score that was the norm for a while.

Anonymous wrote:If a parent has already submitted the referral form, the school will not send a separate one. The school will provide the supplemental info in the packet, in addition to the parent referral (work samples, HOPE score, etc).

If there is no parent referral and a student is not in pool, there’s only a very small percentage of students that will get teacher referred, especially at high SES schools. The expectation at those schools is that parents will refer if they want the student considered by the committee (and they aren’t in-pool).