middle school at School Without Walls at Francis - Stevens?

[Anonymous]

Wondering how this school is for 7th-8th grades? Anyone have a kid there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wondering how this school is for 7th-8th grades? Anyone have a kid there?

No. Zoned for it but no way knowing would I accept a school that regularly scored 30-40% PARCC proficiency.

[Anonymous]

The proficiency rate for 8th graders taking algebra 1 was 78%.

[Anonymous]

My child graduated there last year. He really enjoyed his time there and loved many of his teachers and had quality friends. He was in the advanced math track and did well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The proficiency rate for 8th graders taking algebra 1 was 78%.

Congrats on the excellent scores. I looked up dcps profile and that is amazing result considering only 29% of students were a 4 or 5 on math last year.

https://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/School+Without+Walls+%40+Francis-Stevens

Care to share where you found this information?

[Anonymous]

Not PP, but the PARCC breakdowns by school are available on the OSSE site and have this data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not PP, but the PARCC breakdowns by school are available on the OSSE site and have this data.

Also I think the PARCC data that PP cites from the school profiles is the aggregate of elementary and middle school. It’s an education campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The proficiency rate for 8th graders taking algebra 1 was 78%.

Congrats on the excellent scores. I looked up dcps profile and that is amazing result considering only 29% of students were a 4 or 5 on math last year.

https://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/School+Without+Walls+%40+Francis-Stevens

Care to share where you found this information?

It’s in the huge spreadsheet released by OSSE. You can sort by grade of enrollment and exam taken, which allows you to isolate advanced math cohorts in MS and HS.

OSSE has actually suppressed this data on the “proficiency” tab but on the “performance levels” tab they report the number of students scoring 4, the number scoring 5, and the number taking the exam. It works out to a proficiency rate of 78%. (OSSE is pretty bad at data suppression: there’s a lot of data you can back out, if you’re curious.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wondering how this school is for 7th-8th grades? Anyone have a kid there?

No. Zoned for it but no way knowing would I accept a school that regularly scored 30-40% PARCC proficiency.

thats better than most middle schools in DC!

[Anonymous]

There are enough kids getting 4 and 5 on Parcc to be a good cohort of students who end up at walls for high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are enough kids getting 4 and 5 on Parcc to be a good cohort of students who end up at walls for high school.

Just to confirm - SWW high school is NOT a feeder for the EC - all students need to apply for Walls for high school, there is no preference given for having attended SWW@FS and now that the principal is not the same (bad choice to have it be the same in the first place, but that's a whole other topic!), there is really no connection between the schools (just the same name which is totally confusing!). There are definitely students who attend SWW@FS who end up at Wall for high school, and likely what the PP meant, but it is not automatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are enough kids getting 4 and 5 on Parcc to be a good cohort of students who end up at walls for high school.

Just to confirm - SWW high school is NOT a feeder for the EC - all students need to apply for Walls for high school, there is no preference given for having attended SWW@FS and now that the principal is not the same (bad choice to have it be the same in the first place, but that's a whole other topic!), there is really no connection between the schools (just the same name which is totally confusing!). There are definitely students who attend SWW@FS who end up at Wall for high school, and likely what the PP meant, but it is not automatic.

I'm not sure where you are getting that from PP's post. He/she never said that the HS is associated with FS. Just said that there are enough kids at the middle school getting 4s and 5s. I find it really funny that any time someone has a question about FS, someone has to chime in that it's not associated with the application HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are enough kids getting 4 and 5 on Parcc to be a good cohort of students who end up at walls for high school.

Just to confirm - SWW high school is NOT a feeder for the EC - all students need to apply for Walls for high school, there is no preference given for having attended SWW@FS and now that the principal is not the same (bad choice to have it be the same in the first place, but that's a whole other topic!), there is really no connection between the schools (just the same name which is totally confusing!). There are definitely students who attend SWW@FS who end up at Wall for high school, and likely what the PP meant, but it is not automatic.

I'm not sure where you are getting that from PP's post. He/she never said that the HS is associated with FS. Just said that there are enough kids at the middle school getting 4s and 5s. I find it really funny that any time someone has a question about FS, someone has to chime in that it's not associated with the application HS.

I actually wasn't getting that that was what the PP meant, in fact, I said in my post that I assumed that what the PP likely meant is that many students end up there, but I have talked with many parents who are confused about this. Really, all I was trying to do was be helpful. Sorry if that upset you.