Why is SWS so white?

[Anonymous]

Is this a trick question? It’s mostly white bc it’s a good school. Now answer this. Why is Ballou mostly black?

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Anonymous wrote:No. I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later. But that is not really self-serving. It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS!

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc.

I don’t see any PARCC that stand out from SWS given their demographics. They only have 10% at risk so I wouldn’t paint it a diverse and poor school.

It’s 54% and has 56% ELA and 58% Math.

ITS, a city wide charter school that is 41% white has 58% ELA and 51% Math.

Ross, a school that is 49% white has 65% Math and 83% ELA.

Shepherd, a school that is 26% white has 65% ELA and 46% Math.

Oyster, a school that is 34% white has 60% ELA and 51% Math.

I hate that PARCC scores aren't broken down by general HHI brackets because I do think this really matters on a city wide school. Many - not all, but many - attend a city wide school such as SWS specifically because they cannot afford to live in bounds for a better performing school, so they do what they can w/ the lottery. People use race as a proxy for SES level, but I don't think it quite gets you there. I don't think SWS is any sort of impoverished population, but I also don't think the population at a city wide school can be analyzed by race alone, there are multiple factors at play.

On the flip side, kids who are by definition lotterying into a school should be at a huge advantage relative to a randomly selected otherwise demographically similar bunch of kids where you can't guarantee parental involvement/competence with a bureaucratic process/ interest in academics. In real terms, charters and city-wide lottery schools *should* be doing much better than DCPSes with equivalent demographics. They get away with murder that this fact isn't highlighted more frequently. SWS gets ZERO kids randomly arriving in the middle of the year. It's basically a charter from a population-control perspective. In that light, it's failure to outperform local DCPSes that get kids showing up from foster placements a week before the PARCC is given is sort of embarrassing.

I'm not from SWS, no clue if the instruction is highly effective or no, but you sound to me as if you have a personal vendetta. It makes it hard to take you seriously

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Anonymous wrote:No. I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later. But that is not really self-serving. It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS!

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc.

You are certainly going to get better at JKLMM schools. The math worksheets are a joke. They’re maybe 8 problems for the entire week. I’m not a big advocate for more homework, but the math instruction is weak.

[bActually better or just find a higher percentage of very high SES kids with type A parents who freak out about test scores and immediately/automatically ensure their kid has tutoring on top of 7 extracurriculars? SWS is a bit different in that SES may be lower across ALL ethnicities.[/b] It's a city wide school so many people are there because they cannot afford to live in a school district with better performing scores. Take the median SES at SWS even among the caucasian ethnicity and I promise you, it's going to be lower than Maury.

However, DCUM talks like 100% of parents could have chosen Brent or JKLMM. Do you understand the wealth bubble you live in to make that type of claim?

You’re asserting that there are LMC or poor white kids at SWS? Seriously? That is laughable.

PARCC scores are broken out by race. Compare the SWS UMC white kid scores to the NW or Brent UMC white kid scores. And yes, they are UMC by any metric.

Yes, I'm asserting there are more regular MC/LMC white folks at SWS who can't afford to live in bounds for something more desirable and lottery in. I'd also assert that people who live in bounds for Brent are over the top rich, not just UMC. If you are affording a $1M+ home, you are rich. Not everyone lives in your (apparently rich?) bubble? Not everyone has choices the way you think they do.

[Anonymous]

hmm yes and no. sws now has an at-risk preference which is great. but it otherwise has an awful lot of hill families who are not in-bound for brent and maury (as well as families who are willing to drive some distance to school). which is fine because that is the surrounding area. but those families skew reasonably well off compared to dcps as a whole.

[Anonymous]

Why not turn SWS back into a neighborhood school? There are so many families a block away who simply cannot get in. Instead we have all this road rage and traffic violence because parents are driving their kids from across town. The intersection outside SWS is downright scary with all those speeding drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later. But that is not really self-serving. It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS!

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc.

You are certainly going to get better at JKLMM schools. The math worksheets are a joke. They’re maybe 8 problems for the entire week. I’m not a big advocate for more homework, but the math instruction is weak.

[bActually better or just find a higher percentage of very high SES kids with type A parents who freak out about test scores and immediately/automatically ensure their kid has tutoring on top of 7 extracurriculars? SWS is a bit different in that SES may be lower across ALL ethnicities.[/b] It's a city wide school so many people are there because they cannot afford to live in a school district with better performing scores. Take the median SES at SWS even among the caucasian ethnicity and I promise you, it's going to be lower than Maury.

However, DCUM talks like 100% of parents could have chosen Brent or JKLMM. Do you understand the wealth bubble you live in to make that type of claim?

You’re asserting that there are LMC or poor white kids at SWS? Seriously? That is laughable.

PARCC scores are broken out by race. Compare the SWS UMC white kid scores to the NW or Brent UMC white kid scores. And yes, they are UMC by any metric.

Yes, I'm asserting there are more regular MC/LMC white folks at SWS who can't afford to live in bounds for something more desirable and lottery in. I'd also assert that people who live in bounds for Brent are over the top rich, not just UMC. If you are affording a $1M+ home, you are rich. Not everyone lives in your (apparently rich?) bubble? Not everyone has choices the way you think they do.

I actually have kids at SWS and I can’t think of a single white family that would qualify as LMC. They don’t exist.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later. But that is not really self-serving. It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS!

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc.

I don’t see any PARCC that stand out from SWS given their demographics. They only have 10% at risk so I wouldn’t paint it a diverse and poor school.

It’s 54% and has 56% ELA and 58% Math.

ITS, a city wide charter school that is 41% white has 58% ELA and 51% Math.

Ross, a school that is 49% white has 65% Math and 83% ELA.

Shepherd, a school that is 26% white has 65% ELA and 46% Math.

Oyster, a school that is 34% white has 60% ELA and 51% Math.

I hate that PARCC scores aren't broken down by general HHI brackets because I do think this really matters on a city wide school. Many - not all, but many - attend a city wide school such as SWS specifically because they cannot afford to live in bounds for a better performing school, so they do what they can w/ the lottery. People use race as a proxy for SES level, but I don't think it quite gets you there. I don't think SWS is any sort of impoverished population, but I also don't think the population at a city wide school can be analyzed by race alone, there are multiple factors at play.

On the flip side, kids who are by definition lotterying into a school should be at a huge advantage relative to a randomly selected otherwise demographically similar bunch of kids where you can't guarantee parental involvement/competence with a bureaucratic process/ interest in academics. In real terms, charters and city-wide lottery schools *should* be doing much better than DCPSes with equivalent demographics. They get away with murder that this fact isn't highlighted more frequently. SWS gets ZERO kids randomly arriving in the middle of the year. It's basically a charter from a population-control perspective. In that light, it's failure to outperform local DCPSes that get kids showing up from foster placements a week before the PARCC is given is sort of embarrassing.

I'm not from SWS, no clue if the instruction is highly effective or no, but you sound to me as if you have a personal vendetta. It makes it hard to take you seriously

I don’t have a vendetta against SWS or charters at all. But the idea that we should give SWS extra credit for its scores because the kids are slightly poorer than at Brent… but not take into account the major skewing effect of opting into the lottery and the reality that DCPSes typically can’t perfectly control their population while SWS/charters can is laughable. Charters (and citywide lottery schools) should outperform DCPSes with similar demographics, so if they actually underperform, even if not by a lot, that’s meaningful.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later. But that is not really self-serving. It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS!

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc.

You are certainly going to get better at JKLMM schools. The math worksheets are a joke. They’re maybe 8 problems for the entire week. I’m not a big advocate for more homework, but the math instruction is weak.

[bActually better or just find a higher percentage of very high SES kids with type A parents who freak out about test scores and immediately/automatically ensure their kid has tutoring on top of 7 extracurriculars? SWS is a bit different in that SES may be lower across ALL ethnicities.[/b] It's a city wide school so many people are there because they cannot afford to live in a school district with better performing scores. Take the median SES at SWS even among the caucasian ethnicity and I promise you, it's going to be lower than Maury.

However, DCUM talks like 100% of parents could have chosen Brent or JKLMM. Do you understand the wealth bubble you live in to make that type of claim?

You’re asserting that there are LMC or poor white kids at SWS? Seriously? That is laughable.

PARCC scores are broken out by race. Compare the SWS UMC white kid scores to the NW or Brent UMC white kid scores. And yes, they are UMC by any metric.

Yes, I'm asserting there are more regular MC/LMC white folks at SWS who can't afford to live in bounds for something more desirable and lottery in. I'd also assert that people who live in bounds for Brent are over the top rich, not just UMC. If you are affording a $1M+ home, you are rich. Not everyone lives in your (apparently rich?) bubble? Not everyone has choices the way you think they do.

There are virtually no LMC white families in DC, much less all at SWS. I live on a street with 3 SWS families and every one of them has a house that would sell for over $1 million. They pass about 10 other families en route to drop off; all of them live in $1 million+ houses too. Are there going to be some families who don’t? Of course, but much of the Maury zone has houses well under that range (16th st & east, e.g.)… and even the Brent zone has apartments. Brent is also only 65% IB, so nearly 1/3rd exactly the same types of folks you’re describing st SWS.

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The Problem of 1619.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later. But that is not really self-serving. It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS!

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc.

I don’t see any PARCC that stand out from SWS given their demographics. They only have 10% at risk so I wouldn’t paint it a diverse and poor school.

It’s 54% and has 56% ELA and 58% Math.

ITS, a city wide charter school that is 41% white has 58% ELA and 51% Math.

Ross, a school that is 49% white has 65% Math and 83% ELA.

Shepherd, a school that is 26% white has 65% ELA and 46% Math.

Oyster, a school that is 34% white has 60% ELA and 51% Math.

I hate that PARCC scores aren't broken down by general HHI brackets because I do think this really matters on a city wide school. Many - not all, but many - attend a city wide school such as SWS specifically because they cannot afford to live in bounds for a better performing school, so they do what they can w/ the lottery. People use race as a proxy for SES level, but I don't think it quite gets you there. I don't think SWS is any sort of impoverished population, but I also don't think the population at a city wide school can be analyzed by race alone, there are multiple factors at play.

On the flip side, kids who are by definition lotterying into a school should be at a huge advantage relative to a randomly selected otherwise demographically similar bunch of kids where you can't guarantee parental involvement/competence with a bureaucratic process/ interest in academics. In real terms, charters and city-wide lottery schools *should* be doing much better than DCPSes with equivalent demographics. They get away with murder that this fact isn't highlighted more frequently. SWS gets ZERO kids randomly arriving in the middle of the year. It's basically a charter from a population-control perspective. In that light, it's failure to outperform local DCPSes that get kids showing up from foster placements a week before the PARCC is given is sort of embarrassing.

I'm not from SWS, no clue if the instruction is highly effective or no, but you sound to me as if you have a personal vendetta. It makes it hard to take you seriously

I don’t have a vendetta against SWS or charters at all. But the idea that we should give SWS extra credit for its scores because the kids are slightly poorer than at Brent… but not take into account the major skewing effect of opting into the lottery and the reality that DCPSes typically can’t perfectly control their population while SWS/charters can is laughable. Charters (and citywide lottery schools) should outperform DCPSes with similar demographics, so if they actually underperform, even if not by a lot, that’s meaningful.

Right. PP is asserting that the SWS white kids should get a pass because their parents are GS15s and not finance directors. Not only should those kids still perform the same but PP showing scores for Inspired elementary levels refute this assertion and Inspired is less white than SWS. I would argue SWS is far below where they ought to be given their demographics.

[Anonymous]

To add the following schools rank above SWS when it comes to just white student performance:

Math
Marie Reed
Stoddert
Payne
Janney
Lafayette
Tyler
Watkins
Key
Maury
Inspired
Eaton
DC Bilingual
LT
Ross
Shepherd
Mann
Oyster
Hyde
Even Jefferson MS
Two Rivers
Powell

ELA
Ross
Powell
Bancroft
LT
Key
Payne
Shepherd
Eaton
Maury
Janney
Hearst
Stoddert
Inspired
Lafayette
Jefferson middle (again, only showing cuz CH), Sojourner Truth for that matter
DCB
Two rivers Young
Watkins
Mann
Brent
Tyler
Murch
Oyster
Hyde
Two Rivers 4th
Marie Reed


Also to point out again, SWS has the highest population of white kids outside of the WOTP and some IB CH schools.

SWS has a long way to go. It’s sort of like the CH version of Creative Minds - white people continue to enroll to be amongst white people, not because it’s a better school.

Don’t get me started on their Black student performance. Their ELA scores a whopping 15% - the worst school in the City is scores 11%. They are tied for 5th from last place! Math is a tad better at 27%, tied with Bridges and below Center City Brightwood, Height….

So tell me what exactly does SWS do well?

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Anonymous wrote:No. I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later. But that is not really self-serving. It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS!

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc.

You are certainly going to get better at JKLMM schools. The math worksheets are a joke. They’re maybe 8 problems for the entire week. I’m not a big advocate for more homework, but the math instruction is weak.

[bActually better or just find a higher percentage of very high SES kids with type A parents who freak out about test scores and immediately/automatically ensure their kid has tutoring on top of 7 extracurriculars? SWS is a bit different in that SES may be lower across ALL ethnicities.[/b] It's a city wide school so many people are there because they cannot afford to live in a school district with better performing scores. Take the median SES at SWS even among the caucasian ethnicity and I promise you, it's going to be lower than Maury.

However, DCUM talks like 100% of parents could have chosen Brent or JKLMM. Do you understand the wealth bubble you live in to make that type of claim?

You’re asserting that there are LMC or poor white kids at SWS? Seriously? That is laughable.

PARCC scores are broken out by race. Compare the SWS UMC white kid scores to the NW or Brent UMC white kid scores. And yes, they are UMC by any metric.

Yes, I'm asserting there are more regular MC/LMC white folks at SWS who can't afford to live in bounds for something more desirable and lottery in. I'd also assert that people who live in bounds for Brent are over the top rich, not just UMC. If you are affording a $1M+ home, you are rich. Not everyone lives in your (apparently rich?) bubble? Not everyone has choices the way you think they do.

There are virtually no LMC white families in DC, much less all at SWS. I live on a street with 3 SWS families and every one of them has a house that would sell for over $1 million. They pass about 10 other families en route to drop off; all of them live in $1 million+ houses too. Are there going to be some families who don’t? Of course, but much of the Maury zone has houses well under that range (16th st & east, e.g.)… and even the Brent zone has apartments. Brent is also only 65% IB, so nearly 1/3rd exactly the same types of folks you’re describing st SWS.

How is Brent only 65% IB if it waitlists IB kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To add the following schools rank above SWS when it comes to just white student performance:

Math
Marie Reed
Stoddert
Payne
Janney
Lafayette
Tyler
Watkins
Key
Maury
Inspired
Eaton
DC Bilingual
LT
Ross
Shepherd
Mann
Oyster
Hyde
Even Jefferson MS
Two Rivers
Powell

ELA
Ross
Powell
Bancroft
LT
Key
Payne
Shepherd
Eaton
Maury
Janney
Hearst
Stoddert
Inspired
Lafayette
Jefferson middle (again, only showing cuz CH), Sojourner Truth for that matter
DCB
Two rivers Young
Watkins
Mann
Brent
Tyler
Murch
Oyster
Hyde
Two Rivers 4th
Marie Reed


Also to point out again, SWS has the highest population of white kids outside of the WOTP and some IB CH schools.

SWS has a long way to go. It’s sort of like the CH version of Creative Minds - white people continue to enroll to be amongst white people, not because it’s a better school.

Don’t get me started on their Black student performance. Their ELA scores a whopping 15% - the worst school in the City is scores 11%. They are tied for 5th from last place! Math is a tad better at 27%, tied with Bridges and below Center City Brightwood, Height….

So tell me what exactly does SWS do well?

Keep negroes from rising above their station?

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Anonymous wrote:No. I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later. But that is not really self-serving. It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS!

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc.

You are certainly going to get better at JKLMM schools. The math worksheets are a joke. They’re maybe 8 problems for the entire week. I’m not a big advocate for more homework, but the math instruction is weak.

[bActually better or just find a higher percentage of very high SES kids with type A parents who freak out about test scores and immediately/automatically ensure their kid has tutoring on top of 7 extracurriculars? SWS is a bit different in that SES may be lower across ALL ethnicities.[/b] It's a city wide school so many people are there because they cannot afford to live in a school district with better performing scores. Take the median SES at SWS even among the caucasian ethnicity and I promise you, it's going to be lower than Maury.

However, DCUM talks like 100% of parents could have chosen Brent or JKLMM. Do you understand the wealth bubble you live in to make that type of claim?

You’re asserting that there are LMC or poor white kids at SWS? Seriously? That is laughable.

PARCC scores are broken out by race. Compare the SWS UMC white kid scores to the NW or Brent UMC white kid scores. And yes, they are UMC by any metric.

Yes, I'm asserting there are more regular MC/LMC white folks at SWS who can't afford to live in bounds for something more desirable and lottery in. I'd also assert that people who live in bounds for Brent are over the top rich, not just UMC. If you are affording a $1M+ home, you are rich. Not everyone lives in your (apparently rich?) bubble? Not everyone has choices the way you think they do.

There are virtually no LMC white families in DC, much less all at SWS. I live on a street with 3 SWS families and every one of them has a house that would sell for over $1 million. They pass about 10 other families en route to drop off; all of them live in $1 million+ houses too. Are there going to be some families who don’t? Of course, but much of the Maury zone has houses well under that range (16th st & east, e.g.)… and even the Brent zone has apartments. Brent is also only 65% IB, so nearly 1/3rd exactly the same types of folks you’re describing st SWS.

How is Brent only 65% IB if it waitlists IB kids?

Brent only waitlists IB PreS3 and PreK4 kids. They don't have enough classroom space for a big ECE program. The current 5th grade class at Brent was 100% IB for K, when the school was more than 80% IB. The Brent IB percentages has dipped in the last five years mainly due to Covid related issues (some IB families moving out of DC) and the MS and HS problem EotP. Some IB Brent families go for DCI feeders to be sure of a decent MS and HS later on.

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Anonymous wrote:To add the following schools rank above SWS when it comes to just white student performance:

Math
Marie Reed
Stoddert
Payne
Janney
Lafayette
Tyler
Watkins
Key
Maury
Inspired
Eaton
DC Bilingual
LT
Ross
Shepherd
Mann
Oyster
Hyde
Even Jefferson MS
Two Rivers
Powell

ELA
Ross
Powell
Bancroft
LT
Key
Payne
Shepherd
Eaton
Maury
Janney
Hearst
Stoddert
Inspired
Lafayette
Jefferson middle (again, only showing cuz CH), Sojourner Truth for that matter
DCB
Two rivers Young
Watkins
Mann
Brent
Tyler
Murch
Oyster
Hyde
Two Rivers 4th
Marie Reed


Also to point out again, SWS has the highest population of white kids outside of the WOTP and some IB CH schools.

SWS has a long way to go. It’s sort of like the CH version of Creative Minds - white people continue to enroll to be amongst white people, not because it’s a better school.

Don’t get me started on their Black student performance. Their ELA scores a whopping 15% - the worst school in the City is scores 11%. They are tied for 5th from last place! Math is a tad better at 27%, tied with Bridges and below Center City Brightwood, Height….

So tell me what exactly does SWS do well?

"Here is 1 metric, based off a flawed standardized test, that a small minority of parents actually care about."