Data Nerd Alert-- OSSE Enrollment Audit is up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these numbers make sure on access and barriers, but the number of unaudited students is (!!!!). Wilson parents should be ballistic.
First number is total enrollment, second is ones with unverified residence.
I only included schools with more than 5 unaudited/verified residency.

H.D. Woodson High School 477 121
Carlos Rosario International PCS 1979 71
Woodrow Wilson High School 2047 61
Eastern High School 763 43
Langley Elementary School 305 22
Coolidge High School 740 15
Roosevelt High School 796 14
Academy of Hope Adult PCS 562 13
Langdon Elementary School 349 11
Payne Elementary School 291 11
School Without Walls @ F-S 516 10
Beers Elementary School 385 8
Shining Stars Montessori 246 8
Hardy Middle School 531 6
C.W. Harris Elementary School 230 5
CHEC 1556 5
Maury Elementary School 518 5

Over 61 students out of 2000+?

It's a little premature to get upset. People not having their paperwork in by the deadline is different from fraud.

[Anonymous]

I was interested in how many 5th graders stay at the high-performing non-Wilson feeding schools...it will be interesting to see where they go.

Also, I am IB for Amidon-Bowen and was interested to see that they have 50 kids in two grades...getting close to needing a 3rd classroom for some grade levels, which is a big change from years past and could cause space challenges.

So few kids are in middle school at CHML--I would like to see those spaces freed up for PK and DCPS could do a Montessori magnet program at Brookland MS that could take kids from Nalle, Langdon, and CHML through a programmatic feeder, fill any other spaces through a lottery, and still allow kids to do the sports and other stuff at Brookland MS so they get the big school experience too.

It is also interesting to see which non-public schools DC kids with special needs are sent to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was interested in how many 5th graders stay at the high-performing non-Wilson feeding schools...it will be interesting to see where they go.

Also, I am IB for Amidon-Bowen and was interested to see that they have 50 kids in two grades...getting close to needing a 3rd classroom for some grade levels, which is a big change from years past and could cause space challenges.

So few kids are in middle school at CHML--I would like to see those spaces freed up for PK and DCPS could do a Montessori magnet program at Brookland MS that could take kids from Nalle, Langdon, and CHML through a programmatic feeder, fill any other spaces through a lottery, and still allow kids to do the sports and other stuff at Brookland MS so they get the big school experience too.

It is also interesting to see which non-public schools DC kids with special needs are sent to.

Or all those Montessori kids can go onto the new Montessori middle/high

[Anonymous]

Can I just say how much MORE I appreciate posts like this than ones trying to get Youngkinesque anecdotes about "how CRT is Black History Month at your DCPS?" Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Data Nerd Alert-- OSSE Enrollment Audit is up!

I don't know how I missed it!
https://osse.dc.gov/node/1579401

My quick hot take is how Latin 2 is going to kill Capital Village and Social Justice. They each had only a couple dozen new students this year.

I thought that was about as many as they were trying to have. But yes, Latin 2 might kill them, we'll see. I dunno how interested parents are in Latin 2 given that the location sucks and isn't permanent.

I thought in order to open schools have to demonstrate demand and need. The problem is that it is decoupled from the "location" so all the applications are pie in the sky. I wish DCPCSB had the real cajones to deny location applications as not being in the agreed upon initial charter.

In a rental market as tight as DC's I don't see how that would be feasible.

[Anonymous]

this makes me think that some of the difficult to access schools are going to be marginally easier to get in this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Data Nerd Alert-- OSSE Enrollment Audit is up!

I don't know how I missed it!
https://osse.dc.gov/node/1579401

My quick hot take is how Latin 2 is going to kill Capital Village and Social Justice. They each had only a couple dozen new students this year.

I thought that was about as many as they were trying to have. But yes, Latin 2 might kill them, we'll see. I dunno how interested parents are in Latin 2 given that the location sucks and isn't permanent.

I thought in order to open schools have to demonstrate demand and need. The problem is that it is decoupled from the "location" so all the applications are pie in the sky. I wish DCPCSB had the real cajones to deny location applications as not being in the agreed upon initial charter.

In a rental market as tight as DC's I don't see how that would be feasible.

I think it's high time they got real about certain schools that are circling the drain and have been on a PIP for several years. Free up some buildings for higher performers.

[Anonymous]

the drop between 4th and 5th grade at some of the capitol hill schools is huge (e.g., brent but not just brent)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was interested in how many 5th graders stay at the high-performing non-Wilson feeding schools...it will be interesting to see where they go.

Also, I am IB for Amidon-Bowen and was interested to see that they have 50 kids in two grades...getting close to needing a 3rd classroom for some grade levels, which is a big change from years past and could cause space challenges.

So few kids are in middle school at CHML--I would like to see those spaces freed up for PK and DCPS could do a Montessori magnet program at Brookland MS that could take kids from Nalle, Langdon, and CHML through a programmatic feeder, fill any other spaces through a lottery, and still allow kids to do the sports and other stuff at Brookland MS so they get the big school experience too.

It is also interesting to see which non-public schools DC kids with special needs are sent to.

Or all those Montessori kids can go onto the new Montessori middle/high

Truth can't accommodate all the DCPS Montessori grads plus other applicants, and isn't allowed to give Montessori grads a preference. DCPS doesn't want to give up all these kids to the charter sector, and could do a programmatic feeder pattern. With Brookland below capacity (it was designed for 540 students and there are 327 enrolled this year) this would be a good place for it. Freeing up more classrooms for PK in a part of the city where there is high demand, at a school that is giving the equitable access preference, is an added benefit.

[Anonymous]

I wanted to get opinions on a touchy demographic topic: there are some schools where despite the obvious negative reputations and neighborhood segregation, etc., the schools are listed as having some tiny amount of white students.

And I just want to say that in at least some of those cases, they must be bad data. I say this wishing there were white students at these schools, but they seem more likely to be bad data than actual white students.

Yes - tell me that Leckie is near the base and Beers is in fancy Hillcrest or whatever, but I just see those tiny numbers as likely to be errors.

And it makes me think that self-entry and self-designation, as valuable as that is, permits a certain amount of data that can only be misunderstood to enter the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wanted to get opinions on a touchy demographic topic: there are some schools where despite the obvious negative reputations and neighborhood segregation, etc., the schools are listed as having some tiny amount of white students.

And I just want to say that in at least some of those cases, they must be bad data. I say this wishing there were white students at these schools, but they seem more likely to be bad data than actual white students.

Yes - tell me that Leckie is near the base and Beers is in fancy Hillcrest or whatever, but I just see those tiny numbers as likely to be errors.

And it makes me think that self-entry and self-designation, as valuable as that is, permits a certain amount of data that can only be misunderstood to enter the system.

Well, I think if you're really wanting to know how many students are from middle to upper income families that would be a better question to pose directly. The category Two or more races obscures the data anyway.

[Anonymous]

i think that there are in fact some schools in dc that only have a few to a handful of white students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wanted to get opinions on a touchy demographic topic: there are some schools where despite the obvious negative reputations and neighborhood segregation, etc., the schools are listed as having some tiny amount of white students.

And I just want to say that in at least some of those cases, they must be bad data. I say this wishing there were white students at these schools, but they seem more likely to be bad data than actual white students.

Yes - tell me that Leckie is near the base and Beers is in fancy Hillcrest or whatever, but I just see those tiny numbers as likely to be errors.

And it makes me think that self-entry and self-designation, as valuable as that is, permits a certain amount of data that can only be misunderstood to enter the system.

So do you have any shred of data or first hand knowledge of this or you just can't believe a white child would go to those schools? Ughhh

[Anonymous]

yes this poster is assuming every last white child in dc is wealthy, has two parents, has white parents/guardians, and/or has the same priorities and biases as they do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wanted to get opinions on a touchy demographic topic: there are some schools where despite the obvious negative reputations and neighborhood segregation, etc., the schools are listed as having some tiny amount of white students.

And I just want to say that in at least some of those cases, they must be bad data. I say this wishing there were white students at these schools, but they seem more likely to be bad data than actual white students.

Yes - tell me that Leckie is near the base and Beers is in fancy Hillcrest or whatever, but I just see those tiny numbers as likely to be errors.

And it makes me think that self-entry and self-designation, as valuable as that is, permits a certain amount of data that can only be misunderstood to enter the system.

I know some white families who are IB and have kids at Beers. They do exist.