McKinley Tech - a great school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only 25% of the student body (well, the 99% of the student body who take an AP class during their time at McKinley) getting a 3 or higher in an AP class is uh… a lot worse than expectation.

Where are you getting this? It's not in the stats linked above.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia/districts/district-of-columbia-public-schools/mckinley-technology-high-school-4653

25% of students passed at least one AP test. Who knows how they find that out.

They find it out from the DCPS posted data sets.
https://dcps.dc.gov/publication/ap-score-data-sets

This whole argument is really one poster annoyed that this particular data set (which, yes, shows that at JR 73% of students and McKinley Tech 50% passed an AP Test) is not being published in a more granular form with 3s 4s and 5s specifically delineated. Which, yes, both the school system and individual schools could easily do as they receive this data from the College Board.

Interestingly that 50% is double the previous year, which in turn was a high watermark for the school (the historical data is not good)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only 25% of the student body (well, the 99% of the student body who take an AP class during their time at McKinley) getting a 3 or higher in an AP class is uh… a lot worse than expectation.

Where are you getting this? It's not in the stats linked above.

Check the link for the year before. I bet you that’s where USNWR got it

[Anonymous]

So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

[Anonymous]

Also, that's the 2023-2024 result. I would guess that the 2024-2025 AP results are even better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

Uh...half of the school can't even get a 3 on a single AP test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

Uh...half of the school can't even get a 3 on a single AP test.

They did better than all but four other high schools in DCPS. Banneker's pass rate was 57%. McArthur's pass rate was 45%. They are very much in the mix. Let's see how last year's kids did, but the growth trajectory is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

Uh...half of the school can't even get a 3 on a single AP test.

That year. In expectation, that’s only a little worse than normal- look up the distribution on the college board site

[Anonymous]

And if you look at the data it used to be MUCH WORSE, not even a COVID effect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

+1. And happy parents!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

Uh...half of the school can't even get a 3 on a single AP test.

They did better than all but four other high schools in DCPS. Banneker's pass rate was 57%. McArthur's pass rate was 45%. They are very much in the mix. Let's see how last year's kids did, but the growth trajectory is a good thing.

I’ll throw in DCI pass rates is high 60% think it was 66 or 68% and the school does not self select at all unlike McKinley or Banneker.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

Uh...half of the school can't even get a 3 on a single AP test.

They did better than all but four other high schools in DCPS. Banneker's pass rate was 57%. McArthur's pass rate was 45%. They are very much in the mix. Let's see how last year's kids did, but the growth trajectory is a good thing.

I’ll throw in DCI pass rates is high 60% think it was 66 or 68% and the school does not self select at all unlike McKinley or Banneker.

Clarification because DCI is IB and not AP. 68% of kids got college credit with their IB exam scores. Not sure if that is equivalent to an AP score of 3 and up or 4 and up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

Uh...half of the school can't even get a 3 on a single AP test.

They did better than all but four other high schools in DCPS. Banneker's pass rate was 57%. McArthur's pass rate was 45%. They are very much in the mix. Let's see how last year's kids did, but the growth trajectory is a good thing.

I’ll throw in DCI pass rates is high 60% think it was 66 or 68% and the school does not self select at all unlike McKinley or Banneker.

Clarification because DCI is IB and not AP. 68% of kids got college credit with their IB exam scores. Not sure if that is equivalent to an AP score of 3 and up or 4 and up.

It varies by subject and by college.

I am all in favor of seeing students do well. But comparing one school to another is never quite apples to apples. Some are AP, some are IB, some are both. Every school offers a different mix of AP or IB courses. Some schools gatekeep AP or IB courses, others don’t. Some schools require everyone to take certain AP courses, others don't. Ranking by exact percentage is rarely going to make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

Uh...half of the school can't even get a 3 on a single AP test.

They did better than all but four other high schools in DCPS. Banneker's pass rate was 57%. McArthur's pass rate was 45%. They are very much in the mix. Let's see how last year's kids did, but the growth trajectory is a good thing.

Why are you comparing it to MacArthur? They don’t self select their students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, can't we be happy for a school that doubled its' pass rate from one year to the next?

Yay! A DCPS school's test scores improve markedly.

Positive thing, no?

Uh...half of the school can't even get a 3 on a single AP test.

They did better than all but four other high schools in DCPS. Banneker's pass rate was 57%. McArthur's pass rate was 45%. They are very much in the mix. Let's see how last year's kids did, but the growth trajectory is a good thing.

I’ll throw in DCI pass rates is high 60% think it was 66 or 68% and the school does not self select at all unlike McKinley or Banneker.

BASIS is 100% and they don’t self-select.