DC CAS scores to be released 7/31/14

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-students-proficiency-rates-inch-upward-on-annual-city-tests/2014/07/31/585af6ac-189c-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html

I'm interested in the individual school scores. I'm particularly interested in how Brent Elementary School and Maury Elementary School compare to Janney/Key/Lafayette/Mann/Murch. I'm also interested in whether Tyler Elementary School and Amidon-Bowen Elementary School improved significantly.

Brent and Maury didn't exactly knock it out of the park this time around, although you'll see better results for white kids when scores are broken down by subgroup eventually (now that the 3rd and 4th graders are mostly white, and the 5th grade is highly diverse but no more than 18 kids). I thought that Brent would break into the 80s on this last CAS, but they didn't pull it off.

Tyler and Amidon did improve, but not by a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-students-proficiency-rates-inch-upward-on-annual-city-tests/2014/07/31/585af6ac-189c-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html

I'm interested in the individual school scores. I'm particularly interested in how Brent Elementary School and Maury Elementary School compare to Janney/Key/Lafayette/Mann/Murch. I'm also interested in whether Tyler Elementary School and Amidon-Bowen Elementary School improved significantly.

Brent and Maury didn't exactly knock it out of the park this time around, although you'll see better results for white kids when scores are broken down by subgroup eventually (now that the 3rd and 4th graders are mostly white, and the 5th grade is highly diverse but no more than 18 kids). I thought that Brent would break into the 80s on this last CAS, but they didn't pull it off.

Tyler and Amidon did improve, but not by a lot.

I wonder why people act like Brent is the only game in town when is comes to EOTP. To me, schools like Ross and Shepherd are just as, if not more impressive.

[Anonymous]

I though that YY's CAS scores were decent this year, better than expected. Unsurprising, since more and more of the kids are high SES as time passes and the language instruction isn't as serious as parents tend to assume. The kids don't learn a lot of characters for their ages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS Elementary Schools scoring above 90:

JKLM....RS

E....JKLM....RS

Eaton joins the club this year for the first time.
Off these schools Ross has the highest % of FARMS and English language learners. Tiny school but a significant achievement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS Elementary Schools scoring above 90:

JKLM....RS

E....JKLM....RS

Eaton joins the club this year for the first time.
Off these schools Ross has the highest % of FARMS and English language learners. Tiny school but a significant achievement.

Congrats to Eaton! I noticed that as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new DC mayor should take note of the possibility that the DC tax base may decline due to the decision of higher SES families to flee to the suburbs where they would have a better school system. Eventually this school leadership will take the city down.

In the aggregate, far fewer families are fleeing to the suburbs (or privates) than in the past. If you had told me when we bought our house 15 years ago that we would be sending our DC to Deal, I would have laughed. Things are getting better not worse. Perhaps they are not getting better fast enough but there are SO MANY more viable options than there used to be for families wishing to remain in the District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new DC mayor should take note of the possibility that the DC tax base may decline due to the decision of higher SES families to flee to the suburbs where they would have a better school system. Eventually this school leadership will take the city down.

In the aggregate, far fewer families are fleeing to the suburbs (or privates) than in the past. If you had told me when we bought our house 15 years ago that we would be sending our DC to Deal, I would have laughed. Things are getting better not worse. Perhaps they are not getting better fast enough but there are SO MANY more viable options than there used to be for families wishing to remain in the District.

This

[Anonymous]

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When I looked over the Yu Ying Annual Report, they listed no teachers with over 5 years teaching experience, and many had only 1 or 2 years under their belts.

At least they publish these sad facts. They won't fess up to how many bilingual Chinese-speaking kids they enroll, although Chinese teachers tell me that the number is close to zero (I speak two dialects of Chinese). Even if the teachers had huge teaching experience, an immersion school can only do much with one-way immersion of course (where kids learn the target language only from teachers, not from peers).

Wow, how many years is it now that you're stewing over the fact that random lottery admission doesn't allow your kid a special path to admission? No matter how true it is (and it is true) that all language learner so benefiting from native language peers, the laws and funding that made it possible for YY and other charters open at all requires actual random admission. We know you don't like it. But you're inability to comprehend that it's not a rule that the founders created or can change on their own is astounding!

This is a DC CAS thread, and YY did pretty well compared to the rest of DC. The question is what else can be done to raise scores even higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new DC mayor should take note of the possibility that the DC tax base may decline due to the decision of higher SES families to flee to the suburbs where they would have a better school system. Eventually this school leadership will take the city down.

empty nester here

If there is a significant decline in the price of houses in DC that would motivate us to consider buying there. There are empty nesters, families committed to private schools, home schoolers, DINKs, singles, etc hovering on the sidelines of the very pricey DC market (pricey outside of EOTR and a few remaining difficult areas elesewhere in NE) who will leap in when high SES families flee.

This isn't 1975. In already gentrified areas crime is relatively low, city services (education apart) appear to be decent, etc.

[Anonymous]

There won't be a significant decline in DC real estate values anytime soon. Even if there was, most aren't going to take a 10, 15 or even 20 percent haircut just to move to the burbs. You might as well pay for private under that scenario, however unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain the excel spreadsheet with the individual DCPS scores? I noticed that a couple of schools, Banneker & SWW HS had scores above 100. How is that possible?

[Anonymous]

Wow! Mann overtook Janney as the highest performing school. Very impressive, especially since Mann has more than twice the percentage of English language learners.

Well done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do these score make anyone else want to just flee DC? It's like we're trying so hard to get into a handful of supposedly HRCSs when their scores are actually not that great.

Yep. Makes moving seem like a no-brainer.

Not for me. I see more and more families with kids moving into our neighborhood and their dedication to their schools - both DCPS & HRCS. I also see the unfortunate effects of displacement of those in poverty - many rent are being forced to move to PG County. I see this happening faster than the research is reporting it. Barry Farms and Anacostia development is just one example. Yes, we are talking 5+ years out - but my PS3 child will likely be fine in 3rd grade and beyond.

Good luck, but Middle class parents have been saying this line for 5+ years now...

Ha more like 10+ years

Don't get me wrong, some progress has been made, but it is quite naive to think a turnaround will happen overnight. The fact that DCPS is highlighting a 50% proficiency rate in math shows we have a long way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! Mann overtook Janney as the highest performing school. Very impressive, especially since Mann has more than twice the percentage of English language learners.

Well done.

I saw that. It's the highest performing school in all of DCPS except for the two selective high schools (Banneker and Walls). Very impressive for Mann.

[Anonymous]

I know every year there are parents who threaten to take their kids out during testing week. Does anyone actually do that?