Great Schools new “grades”

[Anonymous]

Langley, Robinson, West Springfield, and TJ are now tied for the best school in the county.

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Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

That's actually pretty awesome. Greatschools has been directly responsible for the increased stratification/segregation of schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Making every school scored similarly will help reduce that.

I don’t think any GS fuzzy math is going to help schools which are 80% FARMS and 60% ELL. People try those schools for a year or two in early elementary and then move if they have any other option.

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Anonymous wrote:Langley, Robinson, West Springfield, and TJ are now tied for the best school in the county.

Which tells you all you need to know about the utility of Great Schools now.

[Anonymous]

Our elementary school is now a 4. We are in a “good” pyramid but the elementary school has been a pretty terrible experience. I feel like a 4 is generous

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Skills-based grading for school ratings?Artificially bringing down the top and bringing up the bottom.

That’s pretty much it. Everything is going to end up as like a 6-8/10.

That's actually pretty awesome. Greatschools has been directly responsible for the increased stratification/segregation of schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Making every school scored similarly will help reduce that.

Umm no. It’s going to continue to perpetuate segregation. My ES and MS scores went down bc Asians and Whites didn’t make enough progress from the previous years (their test scores were already high).

Umm yes, that's going to make affluent families think that lower performing schools are better, or at least make figuring out which schools are home to the high performing whites and Asians harder for families seeking that out which may help reduce segregation

Seriously? They still gives the test score breakdown by racial group. It's not that hard to figure out a school with 40% Asian getting 10/10 for test scores is more academically competitive than somewhere with the main racial group is URM getting test scores of 2/10.

[Anonymous]

Zillow and Redfin don't seem to have caught just yet but I guess they will soon enough.

Seems several school ratings have gone up but at least one has gone down. Brookfield Elementary from 4 to 3.

[Anonymous]

Their high school AP participation rates are completely useless. Apparently, TJ only has 34% participation in math AP tests and 27% in science APs by the Greatschools metrics. This implies that only 34% of TJ kids are ever taking a math AP.

I'm guessing that they only count students participating in that year as a participant. So, the kids who took an AP test the previous year and are now in post-AP classes don't count as an AP math or AP science "participant" for the school. It's really dumb and misleading.

[Anonymous]

Ours went from a 9 to a 6 - WTF?

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Anonymous wrote:Our elementary school is now a 4. We are in a “good” pyramid but the elementary school has been a pretty terrible experience. I feel like a 4 is generous

Marshall Pyramid?

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Anonymous wrote:Ours went from a 9 to a 6 - WTF?

Our school was a 10 when DD started and is now a 7. None of the underlying metrics have changed

[Anonymous]

our local school went UP from a 2 to a 4, but its test scores have been in a free fall since covid so not sure what's up with that

[Anonymous]

All the good schools got bumped down because the poors underperform as always. I’ll make sure to not bother with looking at greatschools again. Next.

[Anonymous]

Go Rams! 😁
Robinson apparently also has one of the 2 best MSs in the county now.

Very funny to see how this latest iteration has turned out. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

It is kind of nuts. Look at Carson Middle School.

85% of it's students are already at 9 or 10 on test scores (on a scale of 10 being the highest group in the state). Yet, because the groups that make up that 85% (Asian, White, and mixed-2-or-more-racial-groups) didn't make much "progress," Carson is rated as a "6"!

Sucks when you are already at the top and it still isn't good enough for GS. You need to make MORE progress to exceed the parameters of the measurement, apparently!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is kind of nuts. Look at Carson Middle School.

85% of it's students are already at 9 or 10 on test scores (on a scale of 10 being the highest group in the state). Yet, because the groups that make up that 85% (Asian, White, and mixed-2-or-more-racial-groups) didn't make much "progress," Carson is rated as a "6"!

Sucks when you are already at the top and it still isn't good enough for GS. You need to make MORE progress to exceed the parameters of the measurement, apparently!

Welcome to being a teacher. These are the same absurd expectations we lived through with No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and all the other federal "accountability" programs. Too bad no one noticed until Great Schools did it.