Originally Posted by Dottie
Maybe you just have a few kids....who did really well! The 90th percentile for Duke makes the CTY critical reading award also (550). Either way, those scores are great for 7th, let alone 11. Award or no award, she did fantastic.
So, how do you think that they are figuring those percentiles?

I may be really dense at math, but I was assuming that if you had a group of say 100 kids, that 25 of them would be in the top 25 percent even if numbers 1-10 got scores of 700+ for instance. Kids #11-15 could have scores more in the 500 range and they'd still be above the other 75 kids regardless of how they compared to the amazing scoring kids.

Is this not how the top 25% is figured?

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