{"id":3932,"date":"2020-03-04T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2020-03-04T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:26:01","slug":"stem-criteria-for-6th-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/2020\/03\/04\/stem-criteria-for-6th-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Criteria for 6th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A message from the Assistant Principal at STEM School:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To all 5th grade parents that have an interest\u00a0in their child attending STEM next year\u00a0please review the following established process. Keep in mind that STEM is a Magnet school located on the Dearborn Heights Campus with the Michael Berry Career Center. This means that all parents are responsible for providing transportation to and\u00a0from school. Our start and end times are aligned to high school times, 7:15 am \u2013 2:15 pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is&nbsp;<strong>no enrollment<\/strong>&nbsp;process for our new 6th grade class.&nbsp; Instead, we will be sending out invitations to the top 120 5th grade students in the district and asking them to apply.&nbsp;If your student is&nbsp;<strong>in district<\/strong>, but not a DPS student, there will be an application posted on our blog (<a href=\"https:\/\/stem.dearbornschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/stem.dearbornschools.org\/<\/a>) mid-February .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have set a&nbsp;<strong>minimum<\/strong>&nbsp;NWEA reading score of 222 and a minimum NWEA math score of 231 as our baseline (winter 2020 5th grade scores).&nbsp; In addition, students will need to have earned a 3 or a 4 on their 4th grade math and reading M-STEP tests.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>However<\/strong>, having these minimum scores does&nbsp;<strong>not<\/strong>&nbsp;mean that a student will receive an invitation.&nbsp; The top 120 students may very well achieve beyond these minimum scores.&nbsp; Invitations to apply will be mailed home sometime in March.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a non-DPS student&nbsp;that applies, his\/her application will be ranked with the 120 invitations that we send home to DPS students.&nbsp; If s\/he ranks in the top 120, s\/he will be emailed an invitation letter and be asked to email his\/her interest&nbsp;in attending in the Fall.&nbsp; If s\/he does not rank in the top 120, s\/he will not receive a final invitation.&nbsp; Again, meeting the minimum scores does not guarantee acceptance.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the 120 students have responded to their invitations, if we have more than 60 students \u201caccept\u201d, there will be a lottery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oussama Baydoun \u2013 Assistant Principal 313-827-1904 Phone<br>STEM\/MBCC\/DCMST\/MAGNET\u00a0<strong>2018 National Blue Ribbon School\u00a0<em>Students First \u2013 Inspire, Educate, Celebrate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message from the Assistant Principal at STEM School: To all 5th grade parents that have an interest\u00a0in their child attending STEM next year\u00a0please review the following established process. Keep in mind that STEM is a Magnet school located on the Dearborn Heights Campus with the Michael Berry Career Center. This means that all parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/edesantis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}