Applicants to the Math Academy must register to take the Highly Accelerated Math Test, which will be administered in Spring 2025.

Please email Erika Smith with any questions about Math Academy admission. esmith6@lausd.net

If Armstrong is not your resident school, please apply to our affiliated charter through eChoices in Fall 2024: https://echoices.lausd.net/

Our Admissions

If Louis Armstrong Middle School (formerly Millikan) is your neighborhood/resident school or if you have been accepted through the charter lottery, you may apply to the Math Academy by taking the Highly Accelerated Math Test that will be administered in Spring 2025. The test may only be taken one time and is required for acceptance into the Math Academy.

To check if your home address is in the Armstrong school boundary, use the 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 Armstrong Affiliated Charter School Lottery through eChoices.

The on-time application window for eChoices for the 2025-26 school year will open on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 and close on Friday, November 15, 2024.
Go to eChoices.LAUSD.net, follow the steps to login and search for Affiliated Charter Schools > Louis Armstrong Middle School.

If Armstrong is your resident school OR if you are applying to Armstrong via the Charter Lottery, you are eligible to take the Highly Accelerated Math Test for potential placement in the Math Academy.

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

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Important Dates for the 2024-25 School Year

Oct 1 - Nov 15 2024 - On-time Charter Lottery Application Window (for non-residents)
Oct - Nov 2024 - Armstrong School Tours (10/2, 10/25, 11/13 at 8:30am)
Feb 2025 - Google Form application goes live
Mar 2025 - Accelerated Math Test will be administered
Mar 2025 - Applicants will be notified of acceptance
Mar 2025 - Armstrong Enrollment Fair
Apr 2025 - Second Accelerated Math Test will be administered

Prepare for the HIGHLY ACCELERATED MATH TEST

Topics to be covered:

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

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