OSSE School Report Cards

[Anonymous]

Came out today under the guise of DCPS seats/attendance are up.

Many more lessons.

https://osse.dc.gov/dcschoolreportcard/schoolsnapshot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Came out today under the guise of DCPS seats/attendance are up.

Many more lessons.

https://osse.dc.gov/dcschoolreportcard/schoolsnapshot

These are a huge waste of time and money. They should fund another counselor for each school instead of these high gloss zines.

[Anonymous]

Wow these are pretty useless.

[Anonymous]

Mostly unhelpful. Some thoughts:

1) I wonder why Latin distinguishes between LS and US but BASIS does not.

2) Any comparison between Walls and BASIS is misleading because Walls is selective and only high school, and Basis is 100% lottery and includes both LS and US. Still, test results indicate that Walls is pretty bad at teaching math and really bad at teaching science.

3) Surprisingly, the withdrawal rate for BASIS (both LS and US) was only slightly higher than Latin US. This includes leaving the school mid-year or not re-enrolling. I would have assumed that this would be a lot higher for BASIS.

4) Latin US has really low scores in English, math, and science. I am not really sure why Latin is so oversubscribed in the lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mostly unhelpful. Some thoughts:

1) I wonder why Latin distinguishes between LS and US but BASIS does not.

2) Any comparison between Walls and BASIS is misleading because Walls is selective and only high school, and Basis is 100% lottery and includes both LS and US. Still, test results indicate that Walls is pretty bad at teaching math and really bad at teaching science.

3) Surprisingly, the withdrawal rate for BASIS (both LS and US) was only slightly higher than Latin US. This includes leaving the school mid-year or not re-enrolling. I would have assumed that this would be a lot higher for BASIS.

4) Latin US has really low scores in English, math, and science. I am not really sure why Latin is so oversubscribed in the lottery.

If you can put up with the downsides, the BASIS academics are clearly superior. It's unclear to me whether the overall experience at Walls or Latin is worth the drop in academic rigor. With BASIS trying harder to make a better school community, I suspect it's not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mostly unhelpful. Some thoughts:

1) I wonder why Latin distinguishes between LS and US but BASIS does not.

2) Any comparison between Walls and BASIS is misleading because Walls is selective and only high school, and Basis is 100% lottery and includes both LS and US. Still, test results indicate that Walls is pretty bad at teaching math and really bad at teaching science.

3) Surprisingly, the withdrawal rate for BASIS (both LS and US) was only slightly higher than Latin US. This includes leaving the school mid-year or not re-enrolling. I would have assumed that this would be a lot higher for BASIS.

4) Latin US has really low scores in English, math, and science. I am not really sure why Latin is so oversubscribed in the lottery.

Because there are a lot of people who don't want to put their child through the stress of BASIS. If you have a kid who's academically not super strong, and you want a well-functioning school that isn't Wilson, Latin is basically the only option.

[Anonymous]

I found it interesting that there were science scores there but they haven’t released them city-wide yet.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. Poor Langley. Their PARCC numbers are abysmal.

[Anonymous]

Why are the science scores so god awful across the board? (I'm assuming that's why they haven't been release. Our high-income Capital Hill elementary had only 14% of science takers meet or exceed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Poor Langley. Their PARCC numbers are abysmal.

Langley has (or, had in the prior school year) a large number of self-contained classrooms. More than most other schools. Test scores aren't very good, but should be assessed with that in mind.

[Anonymous]

Continued to be impressed with Banneker. Particularly with a school that is 30% At Risk. Kudos Banneker!

[Anonymous]

The last page for each school has the re-enrollment by demographic. I found it very interesting for my school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are the science scores so god awful across the board? (I'm assuming that's why they haven't been release. Our high-income Capital Hill elementary had only 14% of science takers meet or exceed.

I assume because the science curriculum and the test are not aligned..

[Anonymous]

Didn't these use to have an overall percentage and star rating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Poor Langley. Their PARCC numbers are abysmal.

Re-enrollment is also lower when compared to DC overall.