"The top 20-25% of our 6th grade students will participate in our AC classes, and we place those students in each content area based on criteria. In most recent years, the students that are placed in our AC Language Arts range from about the 95%tile- 99.9%tile."
You know, some days I wish school administrators had to take a comprehensive course in statistics before they were allowed to wave them around. 75th or 80th percentile in his school is 95th percentile for the population as a whole? That seems tremendously statistically unlikely.
Reassure me about the skip! Please!
I suspect that worst case scenario is a month or two of rough adjustment period, assuming she's got age-appropriate executive function skills.
Since math isn't her strength area, I'd watch out for her being tracked into a lower-performing math track as a 7th grader than she would have been as a 6th grader. I suspect she'll have a better experience if you push for the top track in math and work over the summer to get her ready for that.
