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Anonymous wrote:^actually the first file does not seem to have raw scores. Maybe it is telling us how many students were in the top cohort?? Perhaps someone else can figure out what MCPS has shared. There is one report with historical data on the last few years of median test scores for accepted students but they don’t appear to disclose this data for this year

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/6-%20Year%20Summary%20Data%20of%20Invited%20Students%20to%20Takoma%20Park-%20Eastern%20MS%20with%20Median%20Test%20Scores.pdf

The data tells us how many students from each home middle school group where in the pool to be considered for the magnet by each criteria, MAP scores, CogNat, etc. You can see that some kids may have scored high in one area, e.g., PARCC but not MAP-M, by looking at the statistically significant difference in the number of kids in each pool. We don't know the cutoff scores to get in each pool nor do we know how much weight each criterion was given in their final decision.

Anonymous wrote:^actually the first file does not seem to have raw scores. Maybe it is telling us how many students were in the top cohort?? Perhaps someone else can figure out what MCPS has shared. There is one report with historical data on the last few years of median test scores for accepted students but they don’t appear to disclose this data for this year

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/msmagnet/about/6-%20Year%20Summary%20Data%20of%20Invited%20Students%20to%20Takoma%20Park-%20Eastern%20MS%20with%20Median%20Test%20Scores.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:What is so pathetic about this is that while MCPS may have intended to reduce the Asian students in favor of other minority students, the end result after admit acceptances seems to be replacing higher performing Asian students with lower performing white DCC students. White privilege is alive and well and the white DCC mommies on this thread are busy protecting it! They could care less about Latino or AA students and are constantly, desperately seeking more URM whites to "save" their neighborhood schools, want to bus the poor kids out of their schools , and push for schools within schools so their kids don't mix with the other lower performing population. Biggest bunch os hypocrites on the planet.

The whole thing is a big cluster. No one is happy except the DCC white mommies who think they benefited somehow. Actual URM students were not helped in any way. MCPS is yet again in legal hot water this time for racial selection thinly disguised as geographic discrimination. Principals and teachers got screwed when the central office tried to dig themselves out at the last minute by creating faux enriched classes that didn't exist.

Please come back and enlighten us with the source of your..."data"

I know it's true because Alex Jones told me so!

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:
True but it does give a sense of how many children have the basic skill set.
It is too bad MCPS is not providing Magnet test results this year for the first time. That would be more helpful

MCPS has never provided magnet test results, as far as I know, aside from median score of admitted students.

Did they do so this year? This information seemed to be easily available in the past for students who were accepted as well as students who were not. You could request your child’s test scores

PARC is not used for magnet admissions since it's a test for minimal competency, not giftedness where scores are either pass or fail. There is no median.

Magnet admission consists of a range of criteria for which the CogAT is one of several factors.

Although both are passing scores, there's a difference between PARCC score of 4 and PARCC score of 5.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
True but it does give a sense of how many children have the basic skill set.
It is too bad MCPS is not providing Magnet test results this year for the first time. That would be more helpful

MCPS has never provided magnet test results, as far as I know, aside from median score of admitted students.

Did they do so this year? This information seemed to be easily available in the past for students who were accepted as well as students who were not. You could request your child’s test scores

PARC is not used for magnet admissions since it's a test for minimal competency, not giftedness where scores are either pass or fail. There is no median.

Magnet admission consists of a range of criteria for which the CogAT is one of several factors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is so pathetic about this is that while MCPS may have intended to reduce the Asian students in favor of other minority students, the end result after admit acceptances seems to be replacing higher performing Asian students with lower performing white DCC students. White privilege is alive and well and the white DCC mommies on this thread are busy protecting it! They could care less about Latino or AA students and are constantly, desperately seeking more URM whites to "save" their neighborhood schools, want to bus the poor kids out of their schools , and push for schools within schools so their kids don't mix with the other lower performing population. Biggest bunch os hypocrites on the planet.

The whole thing is a big cluster. No one is happy except the DCC white mommies who think they benefited somehow. Actual URM students were not helped in any way. MCPS is yet again in legal hot water this time for racial selection thinly disguised as geographic discrimination. Principals and teachers got screwed when the central office tried to dig themselves out at the last minute by creating faux enriched classes that didn't exist.

Please come back and enlighten us with the source of your..."data"

Anonymous wrote:What is so pathetic about this is that while MCPS may have intended to reduce the Asian students in favor of other minority students, the end result after admit acceptances seems to be replacing higher performing Asian students with lower performing white DCC students. White privilege is alive and well and the white DCC mommies on this thread are busy protecting it! They could care less about Latino or AA students and are constantly, desperately seeking more URM whites to "save" their neighborhood schools, want to bus the poor kids out of their schools , and push for schools within schools so their kids don't mix with the other lower performing population. Biggest bunch os hypocrites on the planet.

The whole thing is a big cluster. No one is happy except the DCC white mommies who think they benefited somehow. Actual URM students were not helped in any way. MCPS is yet again in legal hot water this time for racial selection thinly disguised as geographic discrimination. Principals and teachers got screwed when the central office tried to dig themselves out at the last minute by creating faux enriched classes that didn't exist.

Anonymous wrote:
PARC is not used for magnet admissions since it's a test for minimal competency, not giftedness where scores are either pass or fail. There is no median.

Magnet admission consists of a range of criteria for which the CogAT is one of several factors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
True but it does give a sense of how many children have the basic skill set.
It is too bad MCPS is not providing Magnet test results this year for the first time. That would be more helpful

MCPS has never provided magnet test results, as far as I know, aside from median score of admitted students.

Did they do so this year? This information seemed to be easily available in the past for students who were accepted as well as students who were not. You could request your child’s test scores

PARC is not used for magnet admissions since it's a test for minimal competency, not giftedness where scores are either pass or fail. There is no median.

Magnet admission consists of a range of criteria for which the CogAT is one of several factors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
True but it does give a sense of how many children have the basic skill set.
It is too bad MCPS is not providing Magnet test results this year for the first time. That would be more helpful

MCPS has never provided magnet test results, as far as I know, aside from median score of admitted students.

Did they do so this year? This information seemed to be easily available in the past for students who were accepted as well as students who were not. You could request your child’s test scores

PARC is not used for magnet admissions since it's a test for minimal competency, not giftedness where scores are either pass or fail. There is no median.

Magnet admission consists of a range of criteria for which the CogAT is one of several factors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
True but it does give a sense of how many children have the basic skill set.
It is too bad MCPS is not providing Magnet test results this year for the first time. That would be more helpful

MCPS has never provided magnet test results, as far as I know, aside from median score of admitted students.

Did they do so this year? This information seemed to be easily available in the past for students who were accepted as well as students who were not. You could request your child’s test scores

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
True but it does give a sense of how many children have the basic skill set.
It is too bad MCPS is not providing Magnet test results this year for the first time. That would be more helpful

MCPS has never provided magnet test results, as far as I know, aside from median score of admitted students.