Deciphering charter school quality reports

[Anonymous]

I'm looking at a couple of charter school quality reports, and finding them a little frustrating. They say they incorporate children's scores on the PARCC, for example, but they don't report them in the same way as DCPS, making it hard to compare across schools. Am I right to think that "College and Career Ready" is the same as a 4 and 5? And "Approaching College and Career Ready" is the same as a 3?

[Anonymous]

That is the correct way to read it. Those are the definitions of 3 and 4 on the PARCC.

You may find that most "HRCS" aren't much better than middle range DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking at a couple of charter school quality reports, and finding them a little frustrating. They say they incorporate children's scores on the PARCC, for example, but they don't report them in the same way as DCPS, making it hard to compare across schools. Am I right to think that "College and Career Ready" is the same as a 4 and 5? And "Approaching College and Career Ready" is the same as a 3?

Go to learndc.org for PARCC scores for every school. You can filter for how many are 3 and above or 4 and above.

I found the qualitative site reviews the PCSB conducts on each charter every few years to be useful as well. http://www.dcpcsb.org/report/qualitative-school-reviews

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm looking at a couple of charter school quality reports, and finding them a little frustrating. They say they incorporate children's scores on the PARCC, for example, but they don't report them in the same way as DCPS, making it hard to compare across schools. Am I right to think that "College and Career Ready" is the same as a 4 and 5? And "Approaching College and Career Ready" is the same as a 3?

Go to learndc.org for PARCC scores for every school. You can filter for how many are 3 and above or 4 and above.

I found the qualitative site reviews the PCSB conducts on each charter every few years to be useful as well. http://www.dcpcsb.org/report/qualitative-school-reviews

Shortcut to PARCC scores. You can see the last 3 years of scores here and filter by grade, demographic subgroup (if there are more than 20-25 students that meet the criteria). http://results.osse.dc.gov/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is the correct way to read it. Those are the definitions of 3 and 4 on the PARCC.

You may find that most "HRCS" aren't much better than middle range DCPS.

Yeah, that's kind of what it looks like. I know that PARCC scores aren't everything, but it's still useful to be able to compare schools.

And thanks to all, this is really helpful.