2017-2018 PARCC results
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Anonymous
That actually looks pretty different to me with only one of the 6 scores improving. Though, it also looks like there was still a good bit of growth. Hopefully the current 3rd graders do a bit bitter next year. Was the 16-17 5th grade class really stellar? Wonder how many went to DCI? *I realize this is a popular school no one seems to discuss! |
Anonymous
Main difference is number of students per grade, which has increased. In 16-17 there were 45 3rd, 45 4th and 27 5th graders. In 17-18 there were 64 3rd, 45 5th, 42 5th graders. |
Anonymous
It's hard to say this conclusively without more info (which I guess isn't directly available). It could just be that Ross has more high-SES black students than the other schools. |
Anonymous
No. Why try to find a reason to not acknowledge Ross is doing a stellar job? |
Anonymous
Janney has 7 low income students in the ENTIRE school. I think you’re pulling this out of your ass. |
Anonymous
Why the defensiveness? This is my first comment, and I'm just wondering whether there could be another explanation. I tend to think that demographics are more important than teaching styles/strategies when predicting student outcomes. I'm genuinely curious whether the demographics of black students might be different at Ross vs. the other schools named. Nothing against Ross at all, and I'm happy that the AA students there are doing well (I'm AA myself and live IB for one of the other schools on the list). |
Anonymous
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You need to look at how black students are doing city-wide.
Add in the Black student achievement rates for DC Prep, KIPP, Barnard ... the universe is bigger than the Wilson feeders and Capitol Hill (thankfully) |
Anonymous
There are barely any black students in any of these schools and out of those there are barely any that are at-risk. You are talking about a handful of kids in each grade max. It's impossible to make any kind of logical conclusions with such a small sample size. Also agree with pp that data is questionable. There aren't more than 10 black students in most of those categories listed I'll give you the benefit of the doubt though what is the source for the data |
Anonymous
Source is OSSE excel list. Have to have 10+ students to get %. |
Anonymous
If anything, other than Shepherd, Brent, and maybe Hearst, I’d say Ross would have more economic diversity amongst AA population. I am also black and live IB for Shepherd. Even with higher income AA students, PARCC scores still low a large disparity. That’s why these numbers tell a good story. Also, look at the % of AA kids getting 5 at Ross. Higher than most of the school’s white population getting 5s. |
Anonymous
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Two DCPS schools you forgot:
Oyster Adams -31.3% of Black students scored 5 in ELA SWS 35.1% Black students scored 5 in ELA |
Anonymous
Wow, that’s a higher percentage than Ross! It’s particularly impressive at Oyster because it’s a dual immersion school. |
Anonymous
I'm the AA PP a couple above you and I'm also IB for Shepherd. I haven't been in the area long, so wasn't sure if there's an area of affluent/educated group of black folks near Ross I didn't know about, lol. So it looks like Oyster Adams and SWS also have relatively high-achieving black students. Any explanations there? Could this all be statistical noise that varies year to year among small samples, or is there another explanation(s) for black students' performance at Ross/SWS/Oyster? |
Anonymous
I'm in the detailed 2018 Parcc performance results excel file and the only way I am getting more than 10 black students for actual data is by combining all black students in 3rd 4th and 5th grade. There are only 14 test results in 3rd 4th and 5th grade total. For those 14 kids the scores are impressive Math is 1 level 2, 1 level 3, 10 level 4s and 1 level 5. and ELA is similar, hwoever there are less than 10 at-risk kids in the whole school. So these scores really aren't that surprising to me. Also for reference there were only 29 white test takers and their scores are similarly high for math 2 level 2s, 2 level 3s, 15 level 4s and 10 level 5s |
Anonymous
Maybe small schools with high SES is the secret sauce. Ross only had 12 5th grade test takers. |