PARCC Scores for Grades 3-8
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Common sense dictates that the Upper NW DCPS schools are better than all those EotP in a definitive way, mainly because they've been well-resourced and run (read primarily serving highly educated parents) for two or three decades. By contrast, the small number of predominantly white/high SES DCPS elementary schools and school-within-a-school programs EotP--Maury, Brent, Tyler Spanish Immersion, SWS--have been attracting a good many neighborhood families for under a decade. They still have a lot to learn from the way JKLM and co. do business. A better crafted and implemented PARCC test would surely point up disparities in the quality of education on offer, even on the upper echelon of DCPS.
Wonder what's going on at DCI MS. They're waiting for more white/Asian/high SES YY and MV kids to grow up to raise their scores? Buyer beware. |
Anonymous
Because everyone knows that white or economically advantaged students never present behavioral problems or interfere with clsssroom learning. |
Anonymous
OMFG. How patrician of you. |
Anonymous
Not as low as Basis. That's actually quite disturbing, but then they just kick kids out. |
Anonymous
Actually are quite a few 'higher' performing schools with disturbingly low levels of SPED students. SWW High School - .7% Banneker - 2.4% McKinley - 2% Ellington - 4.6% |
Anonymous
No, pointless. PP doesn't understand the rules of engagement. It's 25 students in the subset, not 25%. |
Anonymous
Actually LAMB does have 24% economically disadvantaged - look it up. http://learndc.org/schoolprofiles/view?s=0193#equityreport But they also have fewer than 25 of these students in most of the testing subsets. |
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But those are all admissions schools--you have to take a test to get in and have a certain GPA. Plus there's an interview at SWW, an audition at Ellington, etc. MV and BASIS are lottery schools--they have to take anyone who enters and gets in through the lottery. So you would expect them to have a higher percentage of special ed kids. Now maybe sped parents just aren't entering the lottery for those schools. But it would be weird for sped parents to be much more willing to enter the lottery for LAMB, DC Bilingual, Stokes, etc. and not MV. Is it possible that MV is just more generous in paying for private placements for sped kids and gets them out of the school? |
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Sorry, what would those be? Don't they all use the common lottery as the entry point? And don't both MV and YY have grade cut-offs, after which a student is deemed too old/far behind to catch up with the target language? YY has always been perceived to have benefited from the fairly high SES of its population. |
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You should double check your understanding of their scores. According to the grade by grade results (for which inexplicably LT had reportable scores in only 3rd grade) they were 34.2% and 21.1% in math and ELA, respectively. Let's compare to other Hill schools, shall we? Brent 61.8/67.3 Maury 43.9/41.5 J.O. 49.1/30.9 As to my suspicions, the PARCC #'s might lead one to conclude that the one time spike was, at best, anomalous. [cough, cough]. And I have no idea what an "LA to Capitol Hill-ES thread" is, but if someone is questioning LT's prior score spike then I am with them. |
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If you know the school, you know who the one kid is who scored that high. Backing out the stats gives a pretty good demographic profile. Agreed that it is pathetic. Wonder how it will change over time, especially as Van Ness adds more grades and the boundary for testing grades shrinks. A lot will depend on which kids from PK stay. I haven't seen much indication that DCPS understands how to teach economically disadvantaged or special ed kids. When a school's test scores improve, it tends to just be that the student body has become more white kids and less poor. The fact that the neighborhood was removed from the Wilson boundary is an additional challenge. Parents who might have stayed at Amidon, knowing that if they lived in the neighborhood they had a right to Wilson (whether or not they went to Jefferson for middle school) are now more likely to jump ship if they get into an elementary school with a better feeder pattern, or to just move in-bounds for a better school. |
Anonymous
When a school funds a private placement, the student is still counted as a member of the school that provides the funding. |
Anonymous
NP here. I think the point here is that the kids taking the test are in 3rd+. That means that the kids at YY who took the test were admitted during the "can you afford to wait in line" admissions policy. As a result YY's population wasn't "perceived" to be higher SES, the system was set up in such a way to drive that result. |
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Oh please, a bumper crops of kids whose parents waited in line to get competitive WL numbers hasn't made YY mostly high SES. Hello, the screening device is the demands imposed by the Mandarin immersion requirement.
Families who can afford instructional software and cable channels from China, immersion summer camps, Chinese au pairs/babysitters/exchange students, family trips to Chinese-speaking countries etc. are the ones whose kids thrive at YY, a school with hardly any native-speaking kids. |
Anonymous
Parent of 9th grader at BASIS with an IEP (never been kicked out or had issues with services/accommodations). I think there's a more systemic bias happening. My DC gets extended time on school tests and on AP exams. SWW wouldn't allow that accommodation on its entrance exam, which was ridiculous. I'm sure we could have fought it but decided to stay put since our DC was happy at BASIS anyway. But I really would like to know how many students with IEPs apply to the application high schools and what the admit rate is because there is no reason that a child with dyslexia shouldn't be able to succeed at Ellington or a child with HFA can't do well at McKinley, Banneker or SWW. As for the elementary schools - my hunch is that MV simply doesn't yet have a very good intake/early intervention program to identify kids who need special education services. The thing is that many parents who are applying for these schools with 2.5 year olds don't know that their child has learning disabilities. Significant issues like autism or speech language delays or behavioral issues may be apparent early - but diatnoses of ADHD, dyslexia or dysgraphia often aren't identified or confirmed until students are older. |