Class of 2023 Average SAT Scores
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Anonymous
Wow, so 1 out of every 5 students taking an AP test at Langley or McLean gets a 2. And it only gets worse from there. SMH |
Anonymous
Not sure that your conclusion is correct. A decade ago, there were far fewer ESOL/immigrant/FARM students in FCPS. Which factor had a more significant impact -- a change in the demographics over the course of a decade? Or a superintendent who was here for a few years? The former is a known contributor to lower scores. The latter is just your accusation. |
Anonymous
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PP here thinking on this.
I guess the true way to answer my question would be to assess whether WHITE, English-speaking students have seen their scores decrease over the past decade or not. Also, even if there was some decline -- you would have to consider a confounding factor of Covid shutdowns and the lack of education for 1.3 yrs. Brabrand WANTED schools to be OPEN. It was the jack@sses on the school board who forced him to shut the schools. I know. I spent dozens and dozens of hours listening to all the school board meetings and work sessions in 2020. |
Anonymous
That would only be the case if you assumed all students were taking the same number of tests, and even then it would be more like 1 out of 6 rather than 1 out of 5. |
Anonymous
Sure you can say that. But almost every other county in the commonwealth has gotten more Hispanic, and Poorer, in this timeframe. No? There still needs to be some responsibility. |
Anonymous
Can you post the SAT scores for white students 10 yrs ago? I know they used to have these on their website. Then we can compare it to this year. That's an apples-to-apples comparison. If there really was a decrease due to a "Brabrand effect", it would show up in the group that IS NOT affected by language/immigration trauma/increasing-poverty. |
Anonymous
DP - the FCTA has reports from 2017 to 2023, not a decade ago. 2017 was the year Brabrand was hired. White kids scored 1221 on average that year. They scored 1204 last year. Scores went up before they went down as the reports show shows the following trend in the average scores for White kids: 2017: 1221 2018: 1238 2019: 1242 2020: 1235 2021: 1220 2022: 1209 2023: 1204 Scores for every other racial cohort also declined over that period, although by varying amounts (lesser declines among Asian and Black students and a greater decline among Hispanic students). However, even with that information, your treatment of White students as a proxy for students not affected by "language/immigration trauma/increasing-poverty" may not be accurate, as the "White" cohort could include students fleeing countries like Afghanistan. |
Anonymous
So they went up and then, pandemic. |
Anonymous
Exactly. As I the OP of the old scores was trying to prove. Brabrand originally had decent scores in the beginning when he hadn’t done much and the policies of Jack Dale and Karen Garza were still in place. But he failed to adopt good policies during Covid to keep the district competitive nationally, and instead spent much of the Covid year virtue signaling George Floyd and a high school admissions process for a school only 1 percent of all FCPS students attend. |
Anonymous
Agree how is it that TJHSST was the item on the majority of the Board discussions from June 2020 to Jan 2021? 99 percent of FCPS students don’t attend TJHSST and could have really been helped had Brabrand had not prioritized his time elsewhere. But no. That man had to show his “equity” and “anti racism” |
Anonymous
Surprised McLean was ahead of Langley. Would have expected the wealthiest school in FCPS to have the highest scores. |
Anonymous
They prioritized some things they wanted to do with as little in-person public participation as possible. What's the expression - "don't ever let a serious crisis go to waste." |
Anonymous
| Honestly F that Brabrand, he knowingly deceived people during Covid for malicious equity reasons so that he could prioritize and get attention to something that would elevate his standing on the national education hierarchy to cash out. All at the expense of the ordinary kids. But in the end, unlike prior superintendents Garza and Domenech he couldn’t get one of those 500k paying non profit positions. |
Anonymous
No, Langley is the wealthiest school, not the best. Generally Langley comes in 2nd to McLean in most measures. |
Anonymous
It varies from year to year and I'd expect to see Langley at the top again soon. As others have noted, SAT scores correlate fairly highly with income. |