School without walls Middle School
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Anonymous
No one knows. Re that space the city has talked about expanding early ed, and also the HFA program. If OP has a 5th grader now, I wouldn’t assume anything at Stevens would affect her child. DCPS these days is starting new stuff for younger grades and growing into it, adding a grade a year. |
Anonymous
Yes. Increasing number of kids stay for MS years, I would say the majority but don't know the stats. Also small but increasing number of academically strong kids from Ross ES joinig at 6th. Differentiation is strong. Especially in math. |
Anonymous
Still doesn't solve your HS problem - you're all screwed when it's time to go to Cardozo. |
Anonymous
Not really--there are the selective high schools, charters, and privates. And we could move IB for Wilson if we had to. And honestly, who knows if we'll even be in DC in ten years? A lot can happen in a decade. I'm concerned about ES and MS. |
Anonymous
+1000. There are way more options for HS but so few for MS. Glad to have SWW-FS as a feeder and don't feel "screwed" in the least. |
Anonymous
So glad to hear that SWWFS is 'on the map' in terms of viable Middle Schools. Just a shame that it is so tiny. |
Anonymous
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It is not really tiny, but it is not Deal, but no one I know thinks the size of Deal is something to aspire to!
50 kids per grade at middle is great. |
Anonymous
When fewer than half of 6th, 7th and 8th graders are proficient or advanced on PARCC ELA, and even fewer are proficient on PARCC Math .... it makes for a tiny cohort for kids who are at or above grade level. |
Anonymous
At around 40% at or above grade level and rising there are a good group of kids in each grade who are doing well academically. Most importantly the school supports them, as well as the kids who are struggling. |
Anonymous
Plus, you expect to see a lag in test scores in MS as the ES improves. It takes time for the improvements to "move up" with each class. If the elementary school continues to improve, and more kids stay into MS, then you'd expect to see a stronger MS in a few years. The school has shown strong improvement in PARCC scores in recent years; we're betting that it keeps up. |
Anonymous
Look at the testing results by grade (results.osse.dc.gov) before posting. At SWW @ FS the 6th, 7th and 8th graders are already doing better than the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. |
Anonymous
That is interesting, any idea what that is about? An influx of non native english speakers? |
Anonymous
PP should take her own advice before getting too snarky: "Percent of students who met or exceeded expectations for grade-level learning standards in School Without Walls at Francis Stevens in the 2016-17 school year." GRADES 3, 4 & 5: 37% (ELA) | 47% (Math) | Ave: 42% GRADES 6, 7, & 8: 49% (ELA) | 24% (Math) | Ave: 37% Interestingly Math seems to be stronger in the younger grades while ELA is stronger in the middle school years. But overall there are a higher % of students at or above grade level in the elementary school years than in the middle school years and test score are improving year to year. |
Anonymous
For a small school you need to look at each grade. It varies a lot. The 8th grade math is deceiving though because some students are taking the Alg 1 exam, but not enough of them to report the scores publicly. The ones who are not in that group didn't do very well on the 8th grade math test. % met or exceeded expectations (4 or 5) ELA / Math 3rd 30% / 41% 4th 43% / 57% 5th 39% / 44% 6th 44% / 37% 7th 53% / 32% 8th 50% / 4% |
Anonymous
| I would argue that the scores are consistent (and pretty impressive) across grade levels, except slightly less so for 3rd graders, many of whom may not have the typing skill to perform well on the ELA portion of the exam. Kudos to the school. |