Anonymous wrote:is it possible that 95%-tile actually ranks them below avg in APS???

Nope, but it really isn't special enough to need more than Arlington provides to the average kid.

Anonymous wrote:95% is not that high here. 98th or 99th would be closer to needing services.

DS scored 96th and was offered service for math. He said therere five of them out of 23.

Anonymous wrote:is it possible that 95%-tile actually ranks them below avg in APS???

Do NOT tell OP that.

is it possible that 95%-tile actually ranks them below avg in APS???

Anonymous wrote:tried to find this on the APS website but to no avail. does anyone on here have the inside scoop to share? tks!

(why am i asking? yes, of course it's about GT services availability for DC)

This was new this year, right? My 3rd and 1st grader have not taken this assessment yet, but my 3rd grader has been pulled out informally all year to meet with the gifted teacher for reading. In my son's 3rd grade class, there are 5 kids pulled out for reading out of about 20. There is the same for math. Not sure about the other classes.

I don't know anything about the scores, but I can tell you that 5 out of 21 kids in my son's N Arlington class get gifted services in math. There is no information shared by the school as to how many qualify for this service- my son is the one who gave me this information. I would assume the other classes have roughly the same stats; about 25% qualify for math pull-outs.

Anonymous wrote:All of them. Its the Lake Wobegone of Nova.

I thought all of Nova is Lake Wobegone.

95% is not that high here. 98th or 99th would be closer to needing services.

An IQ in the 95th-97th percentile is only a 125-130. This isn't a child who is anything special in affluent schools.

All of them. Its the Lake Wobegone of Nova.

OP, what exactly are you looking for? Are your children not sufficiently challenged? Do they miss the time they used to get with the G&T teacher back in K-2 when everyone used to get time with her/him? Do they (or you) just feel bad that they aren't among the ones who were identified as GT?

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid has a pulse, s/he will be screened for G&T in APS.

yes they have a pulse, yes they've been screened, yes they both scored above 95%, and no neither was provided service.

now can you answer my question?

There was a conversation about this in a recent thread, where I relayed a story about administrators saying 75% of students a Williamsburg had a gifted designation of some sort. Someone corrected that and provided a link to some federal stats that I think showed the real number was more like in the 30s or 40%. I can't find the thread right now.

My guess is a very large percentage of kids score about 95. You need to get into 98, 99 before you get gifted identification.

But gifted identification really isn't necessary in Arlington, since the schools tend to operate at an accelerated level anyway. There's little actual value in the designation.

Anonymous wrote:If your kid has a pulse, s/he will be screened for G&T in APS.

yes they have a pulse, yes they've been screened, yes they both scored above 95%, and no neither was provided service.

now can you answer my question?

If your kid has a pulse, s/he will be screened for G&T in APS.

tried to find this on the APS website but to no avail. does anyone on here have the inside scoop to share? tks!

(why am i asking? yes, of course it's about GT services availability for DC)