DC School Report Card is updated for the year

[Anonymous]

This settles the eternal DCUM debate.

Stuart Hobson moving ahead of EH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've looked at a handful of schools, and the science scores are across the board lower than ELA or math. I know it's a new test--and I know I've only looked at a few schools, but it does also say that on math and ELA, a 4 is "meets grade-level expectations," but for science, it's a 3.

I wonder if the science test needs to be redesigned to better reflect the curricula schools are teaching.

I think science only goes up to 4, there's no 5. Which is weird and makes comparison across subjects more difficult.

FWIW my kid got 4s on math and ELA, despite having gotten 5s on PARCC all prior years. Yet somehow she got a perfect score on the science CAPE. It's a mystery.

There are so many things that go into these numbers, and some of it can be traced back to No Child Left Behind which IMO started this obsession with ELA and Math test scores - taking time/focus/funding away from other subject instructions. A few years ago I know DCPS got in trouble bc across the board they were not providing as much science instruction as they were supposed to, in order to focus on math and ELA. Not to mention, many schools have two teachers in the room when they are teaching math/ELA, and/or have intervention groups, push-in/pull-out support, etc. In many elementary schools until recently science was considered a 'special' so not even taught every day.
So while big picture, yes - you can blame DCPS or whoever you want for poor science instruction/test scores, but as somebody who has worked in schools in DC, the teachers get mixed signals about what content and schedules to prioritize. All that to say I can see the flip side. As is discussed on here all the time, math and ELA skills are essential for being successful in all of the subjects, so I see why they spend a lot of time on those two.

What grade(s) even take the science test?

[Anonymous]

Charters up for review/renewal this year, with their percentile Accountability Score (excluding adult and alternative)

Capital Village: 7% (this means in the 7th percentile of all DC schools for the grades served)
Girls Global 22%
I Dream n/a
Social Justice 6%
Sojourner Truth 49% middle, 60% high school

Washington Global 96% (WOW)

Appletree n/a
Bridges 4%
Early Childhood PCS n/a
Hope Community 0% elementary, 0% middle
Howard Middle 25%
Bethune 59% elementary, 74% middle

Cap City 25% elementary, 10% middle, 42% high school
Paul 67% middle, 75% high school
IDEA 6%

[Anonymous]

You mean EH beat Hobson (barely)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've looked at a handful of schools, and the science scores are across the board lower than ELA or math. I know it's a new test--and I know I've only looked at a few schools, but it does also say that on math and ELA, a 4 is "meets grade-level expectations," but for science, it's a 3.

I wonder if the science test needs to be redesigned to better reflect the curricula schools are teaching.

Here are some of the science results for middle schools:

percent proficient:

BASIS: 64%
Latin, Anna Cooper: 54%
Latin, original: 38%
Deal: 35%
ITDS: 24%
Hardy: 21%
Francis: 10 %
SH: 6%
EH:7%

The problem isn't the test. It's DCPS.

You've missed my point, which was about the test. Even BASIS did much worse on science than on math or ELA.

That's not true, BASIS math profiency is 68%, so very comparable.

You're right--I stand corrected.

[Anonymous]

There's a lot of data here:

https://osse.dc.gov/page/dc-school-report-card-resource-library

[Anonymous]

Highest:
Barnard
Banneker
Deal
Garrison
Hyde-Addison
JOW
Lafayette
Marie Reed
McKinley Tech
Murch
Ross
SWW
Stoddert
Whittier
DCB
Friendship Ideal Middle
Washington Global
Latin 2nd Middle
YY


Lowest:
Anacostia
Ballou
Cardozo
Dunbar
Eastern
Ketcham
Kramer
Bridges
Capital Village
Friendship Online
Hope Community
IDEA
Rocketship Legacy Prep
Roots
SSMA
Social Justice
Statesmen
SEED
Thurgood Marshall


Most improved:
Bard
Bunker Hill
Cleevland
Drew
Garfield
JOW (a lot!)
Whitlock
Malcolm X
Moten
Phelps
Plummer
SWS
Center City Capitol Hill
Center City Shaw
Stokes EE
Friendship Chamberlain
Friendship Southeast
Bethune
Paul high school


Most decreased:
HD Cooke
Ketcham
Langdon
Leckie
Smothers
Thomas
Tyler
Watkins
Bridges
Cap City lower school
Harmony
KIPP Inspire
KIPP Quest
Rocketship Infinity
Roots-- down 60 points wow
Statesmen
Sojourner Truth
Two Rivers 4th

[Anonymous]

Given that it's a sort of random formula, it is really interesting how much the Hill/Hill-adjacent ES accountability scores track popular wisdom with a few notable exceptions:

JO Wilson 98!!! (WOW)
Brent 86
SWS 84
Ludlow-Taylor 73
Payne 70 (tracking perceived rise)
Maury 65 (surprisingly low)
Chisholm 57
CHML 50
Watkins 32 (tracking perceived decline)
Van Ness 31
TR4 14 (ouch)
Miner 12
Amidon 12
TRY 4 (death spiral?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given that it's a sort of random formula, it is really interesting how much the Hill/Hill-adjacent ES accountability scores track popular wisdom with a few notable exceptions:

JO Wilson 98!!! (WOW)
Brent 86
SWS 84
Ludlow-Taylor 73
Payne 70 (tracking perceived rise)
Maury 65 (surprisingly low)
Chisholm 57
CHML 50
Watkins 32 (tracking perceived decline)
Van Ness 31
TR4 14 (ouch)
Miner 12
Amidon 12
TRY 4 (death spiral?)

Wonder if the decrease at Maury will be a nail in the coffin of the Maury-Miner combination scheme.

Go JOW!!!! Byeeee TR.

[Anonymous]

The Science CAPE is weird - my kid said he was unprepared for it/teachers didn't prep them for it.

I can't remember and I don't have the paper any more but it was something like he got like a 4 (is that right?) compared to the 5s he got on the other parts but then his relative-to-other kids score was like 95%??? or something like that....which told me that like nobody got a good score on the Science CAPE.

Sorry my memory on this is shaky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Science CAPE is weird - my kid said he was unprepared for it/teachers didn't prep them for it.

I can't remember and I don't have the paper any more but it was something like he got like a 4 (is that right?) compared to the 5s he got on the other parts but then his relative-to-other kids score was like 95%??? or something like that....which told me that like nobody got a good score on the Science CAPE.

Sorry my memory on this is shaky.

Science CAPE only goes up to 4.

[Anonymous]

Ha well damn

[Anonymous]

Impressive results from BASIS DC...tops in DC, even though they are 100% lottery...higher than Walls, which cherry picks its own students

Science scores

BASIS DC [MS and US]

3: 58.9%
4: 6.0%

Walls

3: 45.5%
4: 2.6%

Latin MS

3: 34.7%
4: 3.1%

Latin US

3: 29.2%
4: <5%

DCI [MS and US]

3: suppressed
4: <1%

[Anonymous]

The accountability score is strange. If scores are good, but there is no growth from the previous year, the accountability score is low…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The accountability score is strange. If scores are good, but there is no growth from the previous year, the accountability score is low…

But if the scores are bad and there's just growth, that also lowers the score. You can see the formula at the bottom. It's a balance that is trying to get at school quality vs just percentage of UMC kids. We already have CAPE scores which veer very close to the latter.