6th Grade Math matriculation information...

Well, it's not a lot of information, but it is a little! I emailed Fairhaven Middle School about their sixth grade math placement process and this is the information I received.

There [are] criteria in place that identify incoming students for appropriate math placement. However, after tracking these students over the past few years and gathering other data, we are working on adjusting the criteria since we had some students not successful this year that had been placed in an advanced class from last year’s criteria. 

 [A teacher] will look next week [week of 4/18/2011] at the data from the students who were placed in an advanced class this year to determine a plan to change the criteria. The Middle School Principals, Jim Facciano, and four math teachers will meet with me next Friday to set the new criteria based on [said teacher's] findings from the data. We will then send out that new criteria on Monday, April 25^th, to the Elementary Principals, Counselors, Registrars and parents. [Mr. MacNevin will post it here when he gets it] 

If you have any other questions from parents, feel free to send them our way. We have orientation all this week for students and will include some of the adjusted math criteria in the parent orientations.

Welcome to 6^th grade!