5th & 6th Grade Slots Available at Capital City

[Anonymous]

Rcvd an e-mail today that these two grades have openings. Current year 4th & 5th grade students each have 25, looking to expand to 80 students in 5th & 6th. Cap City MS starts in 5th.

[Anonymous]

I took a tour of the new facility - WOW!

[Anonymous]

The facility does not make a school a good one.

[Anonymous]

Nothing is perfect. The longer you are around, the more imperfections you see.

The school has accomplished a lot. The 1st class of seniors graduated a few weeks ago and noteably, 100% of the class graduated. This is unhead of in DCPS, and given the background of these children, a major accomplishmnet (The class was over 50% FARMS, for most of the class they are the 1st of their family going to college, for some the 1st of the family graduationg HS.)

There are a lot of successes as well as some failures at CCPCS. Based on some postings on DCUM, there is a family that includes a English Language Learner in MS who recently had a horrible experience. Otheres feel that the way the expeditionarly learning model was implemented was not robust enough to cover the core curicculum.

If your current school and longer term MS and HS choices do not meet your needs, it may be a good alternative. The MS classes are being kept small (20-24) students to support the learning needs at this age.

This may be a great opportunity for some families to move to what may be for them a great place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is perfect. The longer you are around, the more imperfections you see.

The school has accomplished a lot. The 1st class of seniors graduated a few weeks ago and noteably, 100% of the class graduated. This is unhead of in DCPS, and given the background of these children, a major accomplishmnet (The class was over 50% FARMS, for most of the class they are the 1st of their family going to college, for some the 1st of the family graduationg HS.)

There are a lot of successes as well as some failures at CCPCS. Based on some postings on DCUM, there is a family that includes a English Language Learner in MS who recently had a horrible experience. Otheres feel that the way the expeditionarly learning model was implemented was not robust enough to cover the core curicculum.

If your current school and longer term MS and HS choices do not meet your needs, it may be a good alternative. The MS classes are being kept small (20-24) students to support the learning needs at this age.

This may be a great opportunity for some families to move to what may be for them a great place.

I still don't understand this figure. Did all students who entered the high school in that class graduate? If so, that is an accomplishment. However, if it is just that all students still enrolled at the time of graduation graduated, that says nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The school has accomplished a lot. The 1st class of seniors graduated a few weeks ago and noteably, 100% of the class graduated. This is unhead of in DCPS, and given the background of these children, a major accomplishmnet (The class was over 50% FARMS, for most of the class they are the 1st of their family going to college, for some the 1st of the family graduationg HS.)

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That "100% of the class graduated" is a bit misleading. The number I would like to see is what percentage of the students starting out in 9th grade were in that graduating class. How many we're kicked out, counseled out or decided to move out?

[Anonymous]

This was the first 12th grade class, so I don't think you can really judge it. Many students who started at the 9th grade left b/c they did not know what to expect from a new 12th grade or did not know that one would exist when they started 9th grade. I don't think you really understand the success of the high school for a few more years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was the first 12th grade class, so I don't think you can really judge it. Many students who started at the 9th grade left b/c they did not know what to expect from a new 12th grade or did not know that one would exist when they started 9th grade. I don't think you really understand the success of the high school for a few more years.

I think that is fair, but it is very misleading to use the 100% graduation rate in this scenario, which makes me question the validity of supporters' claims in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was the first 12th grade class, so I don't think you can really judge it. Many students who started at the 9th grade left b/c they did not know what to expect from a new 12th grade or did not know that one would exist when they started 9th grade. I don't think you really understand the success of the high school for a few more years.

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True, but the SAT and ACT results were mostly atrocious. I heard this first hand from a Cap City teacher.
Also those transferring to Washington Latin from middle school have been consistently weak, especially in math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The school has accomplished a lot. The 1st class of seniors graduated a few weeks ago and noteably, 100% of the class graduated. This is unhead of in DCPS, and given the background of these children, a major accomplishmnet (The class was over 50% FARMS, for most of the class they are the 1st of their family going to college, for some the 1st of the family graduationg HS.)

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That "100% of the class graduated" is a bit misleading. The number I would like to see is what percentage of the students starting out in 9th grade were in that graduating class. How many we're kicked out, counseled out or decided to move out?

And how many, of the original cohort, were retained along the way?

[Anonymous]

1 student to the best of my knowledge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 student to the best of my knowledge

Really?

[jsteele]

I think that the relevant statistic is not the percentage that graduated from high school but the percentage that was accepted to college. That number is also 100 percent. In addition the students received a huge amount of scholarship money.

Also when asking about the original cohort are you discussing the number of kids that spent four years in high school at the school or the number who attended Capital City from its opening?