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Anonymous
Yes, but do those schools have FARMS and ESOL rates as high as RCES? |
Anonymous
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FYI if you want to compare scores with another state, here's NJ's.
https://www.state.nj.us/education/schools/achievement/18/parcc/spring.htm |
Anonymous
Weller Road ES got a 5, right? <5.0% white, 80% FARMs, 54% ESOL. |
Anonymous
Sure, but they're an exception. Basically the scores are a proxy for FARMS and ESOL rates in the schools, like every other metric. |
Anonymous
Not at the elementary school level, they're not. Here are the schools that scored a 5 (from Bethesda Beat, which is why the list is unalphabetized): Germantown Poolesville Lois P Rockwell Ronald McNair Lakewood Travilah Farmland Luxmanor Beverly Farms Fallsmead Wayside Cold Spring Cloverly Little Bennett Bethesda Chevy Chase Somerset Westbrook Bradley Hills North Chevy Chase Wood Acres Burning Tree Bannockburn Wyngate Ashburton Olney Westover Barnsley Belmont Matsunaga Diamond Potomac Seven Locks Carderock Springs Bells Mill Stone Mill Cedar Grove Woodfield Oakland Terrace Weller Road Kensington Parkwood Forest Knolls Lots of schools with lots of affluent parents, it's true. But also a meaningful number of schools that aren't like that. What are they doing that Rachel Carson ES isn't doing? https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/quarter-of-mcps-schools-receive-top-rank-in-new-state-accountability-model/ |
Anonymous
I agree, but that PP was making excuses for RCES only getting a 4. There are actually a few other ES with a highish FARMs rate, low white population that got a 5. Beall ES -- white 35%, FARMS 25% Stop making excuses. RCES is a fine school, but you're trying too hard to make excuses as to why it didn't get a 5. |
Anonymous
So not all the W schools got 5 stars...interesting. What is going on with Whitman? |
Anonymous
Beall had the highest score in the RM cluster. |
Anonymous
| Can someone explain to me what Credit for Well Rounded Curriculum means? And access to well rounded curriculum? They both seem like nondefined points. For example if a school near me has single digit percent proficient how can the same school earn 100% for access to s well rounded curriculum. The whole thing seems bogus to me. |
Anonymous
Whitman didn't either. Explain that one. |
Anonymous
Don’t worry, “they did it on purpose”. Remember? |
Anonymous
Of course. When it's a W school underperforming, the metric is wrong or they did it on purpose. When a non-W school underperforms, it means the school is mediocre. |
Anonymous
Compared to cities with similar populations like Seattle and San Diego, DC is a very dangerous city as well. Someone was stabbed in the neck on the Red Line near Takoma going to 4th of July two years ago and there and dozens more examples of crimes like that. Baltimore does have more crime, but like DC it is localized. Fact is that kids in POLY are outscoring kids in MoCo’s top magnet schools (Poolesville and Blair) on the same standardized test. Don’t believe me, look at the scores. |
Anonymous
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Baltimore City POLY scores:
http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/3/17/6/30/0403 Asian: 90% math, 90% ela Black / AA: 72% math, 80% ela Hispanic: 69.6% math, 91.3% ela White: 92.9% math, 95.7% ela Find me another school with scores like that, let alone with such a diverse student population. And POLY is a couple blocks from Cross Keys and Roland Park, hardly dangerous neighborhoods. |
Anonymous
I disagree. The non-CES part of Barnsley is deplorable. If you take out the CES part, I highly doubt that Barnsley would still be rated five stars. Certainly, my kids have had some good teachers over the years. But the principal continuously moves teachers from grade to grade, resulting in staff planning new lessons each year rather than honing ones that have been used in previous years. The principal also has an angry demeanor that I suspect is at least partially responsible for the ridiculous amount of staff turnover. Indeed, according to the latest staff climate survey, staff morale--only 24% say staff morale is positive--is much, much lower than at other schools in the cluster: http://sharedaccountability.mcpsmd.org/SurveyResults/content.php?l=0&sch=505&survey=2018SSE&type=Staff&comparison=4 |