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If you have been admitted to Louis Armstrong MS via charter lottery, or if it is your resident school, you may still apply to Math Academy.

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The next Highly Accelerated Math Test will be administered on Tuesday May 30th at 2:30pm. If you pass this test, you will be admitted into the Math Academy. This test is only for those students who have not taken it previously.

 

Sign up here:

Math Academy Accelerated Math Test

 

Please email Erika Smith with any questions about the application or test.  Good luck!

 esmith6@lausd.net

Our Admissions

IF ARMSTRONG (FORMERLY MILLIKAN) IS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD/RESIDENT SCHOOL, YOU MAY APPLY TO THE MATH ACADEMY VIA THE FORM LINKED BELOW. TO CHECK IF ARMSTRONG IS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD/RESIDENT SCHOOL, GO TO THE RESIDENT SCHOOL FINDER: RESIDENT SCHOOL FINDER

 

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN APPLYING TO THE MATH ACADEMY, AND ARMSTRONG IS NOT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD/RESIDENT SCHOOL, YOU FIRST NEED TO APPLY TO THE AFFILIATED CHARTER SCHOOL LOTTERY. **LATE APPICATION WINDOW OPENS ON FEBRUARY 1, 2023.**

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IF YOU WANT TO APPLY TO THE AFFILIATED CHARTER WITH A LATE APPLICATION, YOU MAY DO SO BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1, 2023. GO TO ECHOICES.LAUSD.NET CLICK ON "AFFILIATED CHARTERS" AND FIND "LOUIS ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL." 

 

IF YOU WERE ADMITTED TO LOUIS ARMSTRONG MS VIA CHARTER LOTTERY (OR IF ARMSTRONG IS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD/RESIDENT SCHOOL), YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO JOIN THE MATH ACADEMY.

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The final Accelerated Math Test for the 2023/24 school year will be administered on Tuesday, May 30th at 2:30 PM. If you have already taken the test, you may NOT take it again. If you pass this test, you will be placed in the Math Academy. Sign up here:
Math Academy Test Registration

 

All questions about Admissions or the Accelerated Math Test should be directed to Erika Smith at esmith6@lausd.net 

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Important Dates for the 2023/24 School Year
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  • November 18, 2022- On time Charter Lottery Application deadline

  • ​February 13, 2023 - Google Form application goes live

  • February 28, 2023 - Accelerated Math Test will be administered

  • March 13, 2023 - Applicants will be notified

  • March 25, 2023 - Enrollment Fair

  • March 28, 2023 - 2nd Accelerated Math Test will be administered

  • May 30, 2023 - FINAL chance to take the Accelerated Math Test this year

Prepare for the ACCELERATED MATH TEST

   

Topics to be covered:

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Readiness Test for Incoming 6th Graders Taking Pre-Algebra

  • Place value

  • Compare fractions and decimals

  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers, decimals

  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers

  • Least common multiple & greatest common factor

  • Convert percent to fraction and fraction to percent

  • Convert percent to decimal and decimal to fraction

  • Find a percent of a number

  • Order of operation

  • Perimeter, area, and volume

  • Prime factorization

  • Divisibility rules

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Readiness Test for Incoming 7th Graders Taking Algebra 1

  • Translating verbal expressions into algebraic expressions

  • Evaluating & Simplifying numerical and variable expressions

  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers

  • The distributive property

  • Simplifying algebraic expressions by combining like terms

  • Solving equations, inequalities, and proportions

  • Comparing rational numbers

  • Identifying rational, irrational, and imaginary numbers

  • Rules of exponents

  • Multiplying and Dividing Monomials

  • Simplifying negative Exponents

  • Scientific Notation

  • Solving multi-step equations

  • Powers of exponents

  • Slope, y-intercept

  • Slope-intercept and point-slope form

  • Graphing linear functions

 

Readiness Test for Incoming 8th Graders Taking Geometry

  •  Evaluating algebraic expressions

  • Multiplying Polynomials, binomials, trinomials

  • Graphing compound inequalities on a number line

  • Rules of exponents- multiplying and dividing monomials and powers of monomials

  • Solving system of equations

  • Angles of triangles

  • Solving multi-step equations

  • Graphing quadratic functions

  • Square roots

  • Solving quadratic equations

  • Writing a linear function from 2 points on a line

  • Squaring a binomial

  • Special product binomials

  • Factoring trinomials, binomials, polynomials

  • Solving inequalities

  • Rational expressions and equations

  • Volume, perimeter, and area

  • Angles

  • Slope, point-slope and slope-intercept form

  • Computation with square roots

  • Graphing inequalities on the coordinate plane

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