Not really. Statistically it's not that much. |
Not at all, I am at one of the other schools you mentioned. I know it's going to take time for us to get there and I am happy with the education my kid is getting now. |
And that the scores, generally, go down as the kids age, for whatever reason. So it's only really fair to compare similar grades. Halfway down: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/a-quarter-of-dc-students-on-track-for-college-new-parcc-test-results-show/2015/11/30/ef975362-971c-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html "The strongest scores were in the earliest grades: 30 percent of third-graders scored a 4 or better, compared to 21 percent of sixth-graders. Middle school scores were the lowest" |
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Aggregate for WOTP
Janney ES 74% Ross ES 73% Lafayette ES 72% Mann ES 71% Eaton ES 69% Murch ES 68% Key ES 65% Oyster Adams Bilingual School 52% Hearst ES 42% |
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Here are the 3-8 math scores for the top-scoring schools (showing the percentage of kids at 4+ in ascending order):
School Name Tested Grade Subject Category Subgroup % level 4+ Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS All 3to8 Math All 38.9% Friendship PCS Woodridge Elementary All 3to8 Math All 39.0% Deal MS All 3to8 Math All 39.3% Shepherd ES All 3to8 Math All 39.3% Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS All 3to8 Math All 40.0% Ludlow Taylor ES All 3to8 Math All 40.5% D C Prep-Benning Elementary PCS All 3to8 Math All 41.8% Maury ES All 3to8 Math All 43.6% Hearst ES All 3to8 Math All 44.0% KIPP DC Heights Academy PCS All 3to8 Math All 44.7% Hyde Addison ES All 3to8 Math All 48.5% Washington Latin PCS - Middle School All 3to8 Math All 49.1% D C Preparatory Benning Middle Campus All 3to8 Math All 52.7% Oyster Adams Bilingual School All 3to8 Math All 54.3% School Within School at Goding All 3to8 Math All 56.4% DC Prep PCS Edgewood Elementary All 3to8 Math All 56.7% Brent ES All 3to8 Math All 57.0% Basis DC PCS All 3to8 Math All 59.2% Washington Yu Ying PCS All 3to8 Math All 60.1% Mann ES All 3to8 Math All 60.8% DC Prep PCS Edgewood Middle All 3to8 Math All 64.5% Key ES All 3to8 Math All 65.1% KIPP DC Promise PCS All 3to8 Math All 65.5% Janney ES All 3to8 Math All 66.9% Eaton ES All 3to8 Math All 67.3% Murch ES All 3to8 Math All 68.8% KIPP DC LEAD Academy All 3to8 Math All 69.6% Stoddert ES All 3to8 Math All 72.4% Lafayette ES All 3to8 Math All 72.9% Ross ES All 3to8 Math All 74.5% |
The bolded are the only two that are significantly off. |
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And here are the English scores:
School Name Tested Grade Subject Category Subgroup % level 4+ KIPP DC LEAD Academy All All ELA All 40.2% Hearst ES All All ELA All 40.5% Two Rivers PCS All All ELA All 40.8% Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS All All ELA All 42.0% Maury ES All All ELA All 44.4% School Within School at Goding All All ELA All 46.2% Shepherd ES All All ELA All 47.4% DC Prep PCS Edgewood Middle All All ELA All 49.1% Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS All All ELA All 52.7% Oyster Adams Bilingual School All All ELA All 54.6% Hyde Addison ES All All ELA All 54.8% Washington Yu Ying PCS All All ELA All 62.0% Stoddert ES All All ELA All 63.2% DC Prep PCS Edgewood Elementary All All ELA All 64.2% Key ES All All ELA All 64.8% Murch ES All All ELA All 66.1% Basis DC PCS All All ELA All 67.5% Washington Latin PCS - Middle School All All ELA All 67.8% Deal MS All All ELA All 67.9% Brent ES All All ELA All 68.2% Eaton ES All All ELA All 70.5% Ross ES All All ELA All 70.6% Lafayette ES All All ELA All 70.9% Mann ES All All ELA All 80.4% Janney ES All All ELA All 80.6% |
Yes, this. I think it's terrible that OSSE decided to aggregate the reporting of all of these grades together, when some schools only offer 3-5, others offer 3-8, and other offer 5-8 or 6-8 or some combination thereof. |
Wait, do all the grades take the SAME test?! Or is it a different test per grade... |
Way to go Eaton with all your OOB and 15% low income kids!! |
Different test per grade. Any middle schoolers who are taking what DC considers advanced math (Algebra or Geometry) will take that exam. The spreadsheets that were released by OSSE are dense but you can distinguish between grades. |
Calm down. OSSE released the grade by grade results too -look at their links (and also broke out by special needs, race/ethnicity and econ at risk. Be annoyed with the Post which is only reporting the aggregate scores by school. |
If the school has more than 25 per grade you can see how they did per grade. They definintely need to lower it to 10. For example, in 3rd grade only: MV 40% in math and 31% in english ITS 56% in math and 52% in english LAMB 33% in math and 48% in english 2R got 60% in math and 60% in english |
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Ugh, i hate the posturing that begins on page 1 of this thread: X is best because kids scored 1% better than Y! Yay us. come on, aren't we smarter than that?
And I'd love to see some critical discussion about the tests themselves. Are these tests measuring the correct things? Should third graders be evaluated on comprehension with a keyboard based test? And, what do these scores say about the education any individual child is receiving? That said, yay eaton - gotten fairly ridiculous bashing on this board alter, but hanging in the top, as usual. |
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If you take the average of both scores, here are the best-performing schools (the share of kids scoring 4+):
Janney ES 0.7375 Ross ES 0.7255 Lafayette ES 0.719 Mann ES 0.706 Eaton ES 0.689 Stoddert ES 0.678 Murch ES 0.6745 Key ES 0.6495 Basis DC PCS 0.6335 Brent ES 0.626 Washington Yu Ying PCS 0.6105 DC Prep PCS Edgewood Elementary 0.6045 Washington Latin PCS - Middle School 0.5845 DC Prep PCS Edgewood Middle 0.568 KIPP DC LEAD Academy 0.549 Oyster Adams Bilingual School 0.5445 Deal MS 0.536 Hyde Addison ES 0.5165 School Within School at Goding 0.513 Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) PCS 0.458 Maury ES 0.44 Shepherd ES 0.4335 Hearst ES 0.4225 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS 0.383 Two Rivers PCS 0.375 Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS 0.354 |