Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:204 AAP students is more than some of the current AAP centers have.

Because 204 includes Local Level IV (who are not Center-eligible) as well as Level IV Center students that opted not to go to the AAP Center.

This is elementary school so it's correct for 204 center eligible. The Local Level IV are the students who opted not to go to a center. In middle school the demographics and student membership numbers are different because one is center and total level IV includes the honors which does not exist in elementary school.

11:42 Are you sure that Forestville doesn't have 204 students who qualified? Those numbers are done by the central office so I don't see why they would know which children are put into specific classrooms.

Anonymous wrote:PS: my DC in AAP center in mclean. Most of the moms and dads of AAP kids both work outside the home, often at jobs with much responsibility. (Moms include law partners, SES in govt, NIH research scientists, practicing MDs, World Bank executives with much international travel). Only SAHMs I know in McLean are GE moms.

Right. Us SAHMs are either micromanaging helicopter parents prepping and testing all day or just dummies whose children inherited our mediocre genes only fit for GE. Geesh! Very nice characterizations both ways.

Anonymous wrote:204 AAP students is more than some of the current AAP centers have.

Because 204 includes Local Level IV (who are not Center-eligible) as well as Level IV Center students that opted not to go to the AAP Center.

204 AAP students is more than some of the current AAP centers have.

Anonymous wrote:I am new to the area. I am sure there is some web site somewhere that lists it, so please don't flame me, but:

What percentage of kids in FCPS elementary schools are in the AAP program?
(also, is it listed by school?)

FCPS has monthly numbers showing the Level IV Center AAP program enrollment for each school site. That includes local level IV and center programs. Grades k through 2 are excluded from eligibility so you have to subtract out those grade levels. The bold percentages would be higher if you added back in the students that go to a center. More than 50% gifted? Perhaps that is one reason the program was changed to Advanced Academic programs instead of GT.

Source:
http://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:42:2419785714393363::NO:42_SCHOOL_YEAR,P42_CLUSTER_ID,P42_DIVISION_ID,P42_SCHOOL_ID:201213,1,DIVISION,

Chesterbrook
grade 3 gen ed 80
grade 4 gen ed 66
grade 5 gen ed 51
grade 6 gen ed 68
grades 3 thru 6 gen ed 265
AAP-Lvl IV CTR/PG 110
grades 3 thru 6 total 375
percent qualified for AAP-Lvl IV CTR/PG 29%

Forestville
grade 3 gen ed 39
grade 4 gen ed 48
grade 5 gen ed 59
grade 6 gen ed 54
grades 3 thru 6 gen ed 200
AAP-Lvl IV CTR/PG 204
grades 3 thru 6 total 404
percent qualified for AAP-Lvl IV CTR/PG 50%

Just curious - which elementary base school in Mclean is 40% AAP but not a Center school?

Anonymous wrote:You are not measuring the AAP percentages correctly ... the elementary AAP schools are CENTERS. So they pull kids from other elementary schools. So when you say that 40% of the kids at, e.g., Churchill Road school, are in AAP, that is not 40% of the kids who would usually be at Churchill Road. It is some percentage of kids at Churchill Road, plus people who come from adjoining elementary school districts because their home base elementary schools that don't have an AAP center. (And as a consequence, those schools have 0% in AAP). More like 10% of the kids from each school in McLean are AAP.

Where are you from? Because you don't know McLean schools (even though you did correctly name one).

Our base school in McLean, which is not a center, is 40% AAP.

Nor does it include kids who opted out of centers and are at their base school, which is one population that FCPS said they were concerned about meeting the needs of. I've not seen a count of those kids yet come out of FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:16.6 percent is all level iv, not just center.

16.6 percent is all Level IV Centers and does not include Local Level IV, per December 10, 2012 presentation to the School Board -- see slide #18:

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/92UNAX5CE5A8/$file/AAP%20Expansion%20Plan%20Final_2_PPT.pdf

PS: my DC in AAP center in mclean. Most of the moms and dads of AAP kids both work outside the home, often at jobs with much responsibility. (Moms include law partners, SES in govt, NIH research scientists, practicing MDs, World Bank executives with much international travel). Only SAHMs I know in McLean are GE moms.

16.6 percent is all level iv, not just center.

Anonymous wrote:You are not measuring the AAP percentages correctly ... the elementary AAP schools are CENTERS. So they pull kids from other elementary schools. So when you say that 40% of the kids at, e.g., Churchill Road school, are in AAP, that is not 40% of the kids who would usually be at Churchill Road. It is some percentage of kids at Churchill Road, plus people who come from adjoining elementary school districts because their home base elementary schools that don't have an AAP center. (And as a consequence, those schools have 0% in AAP). More like 10% of the kids from each school in McLean are AAP.

Countywide is 16.6% (quote from previous post), so McLean area should be higher than that, more like 20% to 25% range, because of the higher-income (thus stay-home moms can dedicate 18 hours/day on their kids, getting WISC to appeal, etc).

You are not measuring the AAP percentages correctly ... the elementary AAP schools are CENTERS. So they pull kids from other elementary schools. So when you say that 40% of the kids at, e.g., Churchill Road school, are in AAP, that is not 40% of the kids who would usually be at Churchill Road. It is some percentage of kids at Churchill Road, plus people who come from adjoining elementary school districts because their home base elementary schools that don't have an AAP center. (And as a consequence, those schools have 0% in AAP). More like 10% of the kids from each school in McLean are AAP.