DC CAPE SCORES

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking just at elementary schools, a few things that have jumped out at me:

Lee Montessori East End is a disaster. Montessori in general doesn't perform great compared to schools with similar at-risk rates, but Lee EE is just amazingly bad.

What are Center City-Congress Heights and Whittier doing that others aren't? They're scoring way above where one would expect given their as-risk rates.

Same with Moten Elementary. The scores aren't good in a vacuum, but when considering 84% of their students are considered at-risk, they're all but pulling off miracles in math and ELA.

White kids do fine anywhere there's at least 10 white kids, apparently. DCPS outperforms charters. Ward 3 schools lead the way, unsurprisingly.

Even the highest performing schools are failing their at-risk students more often than not.

At schools with an at-risk rate below 25%, DCPS substantial out-performs charters. The gap is wider at math than it is at reading.

I can't speak to Cap City but honestly Whittier has an incredible staff.

Beginning in first grade students do block scheduling with almost an hour and a half each of ELA, math, and science each day. They also have a math interventionist/acceleration teacher and separate reading intervention and acceleration teachers. The reading acceleration teacher holds a morning book club before school for kids ages kindergarten and up as well.

If the school could get more local UMC families to buy in for later grades (lots of building + MS fears) the scores overall would soar.

You must mean Center City. Cap City isn’t doing that well and recently got a bunch of conditions from the charter board because of their performance. Center City Congress Heights has an amazing principal, great culture and strong, stable staff.

Yes Center City, honest mistake in typing.

[Anonymous]

the pandemic was a disaster for some kids. they fell way behind on reading and math skills and they are still despite lots of remediation far behind. you then have the pronounced challenges of students multiple grade levels apart in abilities in the same classroom. they might be learning but its no enough to pass the CAPE test.

[Anonymous]

I just went to the CAPE scores again, and it looks like they posted more granular results now, including Algebra and Geometry results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking just at elementary schools, a few things that have jumped out at me:

Lee Montessori East End is a disaster. Montessori in general doesn't perform great compared to schools with similar at-risk rates, but Lee EE is just amazingly bad.

What are Center City-Congress Heights and Whittier doing that others aren't? They're scoring way above where one would expect given their as-risk rates.

Same with Moten Elementary. The scores aren't good in a vacuum, but when considering 84% of their students are considered at-risk, they're all but pulling off miracles in math and ELA.

White kids do fine anywhere there's at least 10 white kids, apparently. DCPS outperforms charters. Ward 3 schools lead the way, unsurprisingly.

Even the highest performing schools are failing their at-risk students more often than not.

At schools with an at-risk rate below 25%, DCPS substantial out-performs charters. The gap is wider at math than it is at reading.

I can't speak to Cap City but honestly Whittier has an incredible staff.

Beginning in first grade students do block scheduling with almost an hour and a half each of ELA, math, and science each day. They also have a math interventionist/acceleration teacher and separate reading intervention and acceleration teachers. The reading acceleration teacher holds a morning book club before school for kids ages kindergarten and up as well.

If the school could get more local UMC families to buy in for later grades (lots of building + MS fears) the scores overall would soar.

+1

Whittier attracts really strong teachers (recently several from Ward 3 schools) and retains strong teachers. It’s because the principal is the best in DCPS. She’s phenomenal and has a clear vision and knows how to motivate her staff.