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Anonymous wrote:What is SES and what does pass advanced mean

SES is socioeconomic status - higher SES schools tend to have higher achieving cohorts and higher bars to advanced coursework.

The SOL scoring is 400 to pass, 500 to pass advanced, and 600 is perfect.

Thank you I never would have figured that out. We are at a high SES school and the AART said the bar is really high for AAP, why is this the case? I’m not clear on the rationale here to have access to the same rigor. Meaning if my child can’t meet the 99% only club he won’t have access to the same rigor that maybe someone scoring 90% and getting into full time.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the replies. We did the PT AAP application, not interested in going to full time center school.
To answer some questions, 90-99% on both math and reading in all iReady test window, with a few 70-90s% in first and second grade test windows.

We are in a “middle of the road” SES school.
Guess we’ll just see. I feel like the 475 math score was good given the type of math she’s actually received in school and we don’t do any work with her at home at all.

Do most full or part-time AAP kids score in mid-high 500s on reading and math SOLs after being in advanced math? Just curious!

A 475 is a good score but it is not likely to get a student placed in Advanced Math in a good number of schools. the SOLs are adaptive. Kids scoring in the pass advanced categories are the ones answering grade level questions correctly and moving into questions that are above grade level. Kids scoring in the pass proficient are getting a lot more questions wrong and are not answering questions in the advanced category. My kid would come home from the SOL and tell us what questions he was having problems with at the end of the test and they were all material not covered in the current grade level. He was more upset that he knew how to solve them once his dad explained the answer then anything, but he had not been introduced to the concept in class so had no real chance.

I would guess that a 475 on the math SOL says that your child is strong on the grade level math but did not get any questions in the next grade level correct. And that is fine, they have not been taught that material. Just know that there are other kids who know that material. Some of it is because of outside enrichment and some of it is that kids pick up math concepts quickly and easily and some of it is a combination of both.

Anonymous wrote:What is SES and what does pass advanced mean

SES is socioeconomic status - higher SES schools tend to have higher achieving cohorts and higher bars to advanced coursework.

The SOL scoring is 400 to pass, 500 to pass advanced, and 600 is perfect.

What is SES and what does pass advanced mean

I'm really sorry OP but your child won't get into part-time math if s/he did not get pass advanced on the math SOL.

Anonymous wrote:At our school pass advanced on the SOLs or (NOT and) >= 90th percentile on iReady math qualifies you to push in for advanced math the following year. We're an AAP center, though, so plenty of advanced math classes available to push into.

I wish every school was transparent about this. Most are not.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the replies. We did the PT AAP application, not interested in going to full time center school.
To answer some questions, 90-99% on both math and reading in all iReady test window, with a few 70-90s% in first and second grade test windows.

We are in a “middle of the road” SES school.
Guess we’ll just see. I feel like the 475 math score was good given the type of math she’s actually received in school and we don’t do any work with her at home at all.

Do most full or part-time AAP kids score in mid-high 500s on reading and math SOLs after being in advanced math? Just curious!

Our school required a pass advanced on the math SOL to participate in Advanced Math if you had not deferred LIV placement. They also required an iReady for 95th percentile or higher. Advanced Math jumps you a head a full school year in math and can lead to Algebra 1 in 7th grade. It is a class that moves more quickly by design.

I would hope most kids in AAP are passing advanced and a higher score passed advanced but there is no real way of knowing that. They are supposed to be advanced academically, I would hope that they are passing advanced on the grade level SOL. I know that the average SOL score for Algebra 1 H in 7th grade was a 550 last year, I looked it up a little while ago to answer a question.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the replies. We did the PT AAP application, not interested in going to full time center school.
To answer some questions, 90-99% on both math and reading in all iReady test window, with a few 70-90s% in first and second grade test windows.

We are in a “middle of the road” SES school.
Guess we’ll just see. I feel like the 475 math score was good given the type of math she’s actually received in school and we don’t do any work with her at home at all.

Do most full or part-time AAP kids score in mid-high 500s on reading and math SOLs after being in advanced math? Just curious!

I think in 3rd and 4th the math SOL is quite easy because they are working ahead of the standards but taking the normal SOL. In 5th they take the 6th grade SOL, which is the math they actually learned, and I think that's a bit more challenging for kids.

Thanks for the replies. We did the PT AAP application, not interested in going to full time center school.
To answer some questions, 90-99% on both math and reading in all iReady test window, with a few 70-90s% in first and second grade test windows.

We are in a “middle of the road” SES school.
Guess we’ll just see. I feel like the 475 math score was good given the type of math she’s actually received in school and we don’t do any work with her at home at all.

Do most full or part-time AAP kids score in mid-high 500s on reading and math SOLs after being in advanced math? Just curious!

The part-time AAP application is quick - I would just do it. My kid was in full-time and never scored pass-advanced, fwiw, but was always close and did very well in class.

Anonymous wrote:At our school pass advanced on the SOLs or (NOT and) >= 90th percentile on iReady math qualifies you to push in for advanced math the following year. We're an AAP center, though, so plenty of advanced math classes available to push into.

Our school was both SOL and iReady scores. You had to pass advanced on the math SOL and be 95th percentile or higher for Advanced Math. There was also a math test that was given to the kids. AAP is a cluster model so LIV really doesn't mean a ton. It did guarantee that you were in the advanced Math class regardless of other tests scores.

It will be school dependent. 90+ on iReady seems like scores in the low 90's, otherwise you would have said 98th or 99th percentile. One low passed advanced and one passed proficient. No if you are at a high SES school. Yes if you are at a lower SES school. Borderline at some mid SES schools, it will depend on what the student population test scores look like.

Was she in-pool for AAP or not?

At our school pass advanced on the SOLs or (NOT and) >= 90th percentile on iReady math qualifies you to push in for advanced math the following year. We're an AAP center, though, so plenty of advanced math classes available to push into.

Part time is so nebulous and school dependent I don't think there's any way to know and county-wide info doesn't mean much.

My daughter scored 505 in reading and 475 in math on 3rd grade SOLs. IReady from fall and midyear in the 90+ percentiles. No spring yet.

I know part—time AAP decisions are based on other factors are well.

Do you think these scores are reasonable for part-time AAP, from a test score perspective? We did a referral for her last month.

I know other factors are considered just trying to gauge based on these scores, for comparison!