OSSE School Report Cards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

NP but I’m always puzzled by how low Basis’ at-risk percent is given they are open enrollment. I assume the academic performance is based on parent SES as much as the strong curriculum.

[Anonymous]

PARCC scores must be really bad if OSSE is not breaking down the subgroups like before. I predict that there is significantly less students above grade level scoring 5’s and significantly more kids way below grade level scoring 1’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PARCC scores must be really bad if OSSE is not breaking down the subgroups like before. I predict that there is significantly less students above grade level scoring 5’s and significantly more kids way below grade level scoring 1’s.

The subgroups are broken down on the parcc scores site

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARCC scores must be really bad if OSSE is not breaking down the subgroups like before. I predict that there is significantly less students above grade level scoring 5’s and significantly more kids way below grade level scoring 1’s.

The subgroups are broken down on the parcc scores site

Where is that? Link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARCC scores must be really bad if OSSE is not breaking down the subgroups like before. I predict that there is significantly less students above grade level scoring 5’s and significantly more kids way below grade level scoring 1’s.

The subgroups are broken down on the parcc scores site

Where is that? Link?

here: Also not easy to navigate, but been up since Oct: https://osse.dc.gov/page/2021-22-parcc-and-msaa-results-and-resources

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is my DS. Not an academic superstar at all, but has had an amazing experience throughout Latin with a great group of friends and teachers. That’s what we want for him in terms of an US experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARCC scores must be really bad if OSSE is not breaking down the subgroups like before. I predict that there is significantly less students above grade level scoring 5’s and significantly more kids way below grade level scoring 1’s.

The subgroups are broken down on the parcc scores site

Where is that? Link?

here: Also not easy to navigate, but been up since Oct: https://osse.dc.gov/page/2021-22-parcc-and-msaa-results-and-resources

The 1/2/3/4/5 scores are also reported on the DCPS school profiles and the My School school profiles (which includes charters). If you’re just interested in the top line numbers for a handful of schools, those are much easier to navigate than the OSSE spreadsheets.