With the New York State math and reading tests set to begin next week, the opt-out movement has made noise from the State Education Department to City Hall, with opponents of the tests pushing for even more students to sit them out this year.

But at some schools, they have not been heard.

Alice Hom, the principal of Public School 124 Yung Wing, in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, said that no parents were having their children opt out of the tests at her school this year. Only one family has ever done so.

Nor do the parents at P.S. 124 consider test preparation to be anathema, as other parents do. Many purchase their own test-prep books — a nearby stationery store stocks a wide variety, including Barron’s “Common Core Success” series — or send their children to after-school or Saturday programs where they get additional drills.

On Wednesday after school, teachers were offering some students help. Alpona Datta was there to pick up her son, who is in the third grade. “I just said, ‘Take the test — this is a good thing,’” she said. Ms. Datta, a teaching aide for the city’s Education Department, said that she was nervous about the exams and had made her son do three practice tests at home in the past month. But she believed that taking the tests was a valuable experience.