DC's School Report Cards are up. Any surprises?

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Anonymous wrote:I am also surprised by the sizeable difference between the two Latin campuses. Both do pretty well 97%ile (OG) & 71%ile (Cooper), but there's a pretty big spread between them and the OG campus comes out ahead on both achievement and growth. It also come out ahead in attendance and there is a HUGE differential in teacher retention where OG's number is awesome (90) and Cooper's is concerning (64).

It really seems like almost no school manages expansion all that well; or at least, my default assumption is a second campus is likely to struggle a lot more.

I think it takes time for an expansion school or really any new school to get through its growing pains. I doubt original Latin had 90% retention in the first years of opening. MV Calle ocho is pretty strong now.

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Anonymous wrote:A quick year over year comparison of percentile ranks shows there has been a lot of change. These are percentage points.

Achievement Prep +35.
Burroughs +33.
Burrville +20.
Chavez down 30.
Cleveland down 57.
CMI up 14.
DCB down 43.
DC Prep had a rough year.
Haynes elementary down 32.
Stokes EE down 24.
Excel down 20.
Friendship mixed.
Garfield up 51, wow.
Woodson up 38.
Hearst up 29.
Howard up 35.
JOW down 37.
Kelly Miller down 30.
Ketcham up 29.
Kimball up 42.
King down 40.
KIPP had a rough year
Langdon up 22.
Boone down 29.
Lee Brookland up 23.
MacFarland up 21.
Marie Reed down 34.
Bethune down a lot.
Meridian down a lot.
Mundo up a bit
Murch down 34!
Noyes up 31
Oyster up 30-34.
Paul Middle down 29
Payne down 21
Randle Highlands down 40
Rocketship improved but still quite bad
Seaton up 22
Sela up 41
Shepherd down 27
SSMA up 42 so out of the danger zone
Chisholm up 30
Social Justice up 71!
Stanton up 39
Statesman up a lot
Stuart-Hobson up 23
Truth up 18-26
Thomas up 57
TMA up 22
Truesdell down 23
Tr4 up 25, TRY El up 16, TR Middle down 12
Van Ness down 22
Wash Global down 18
WLA up 17
Yy down 14
Watkins up 45
Whittier down 37

How did Garrison do?

I ran these numbers on my work computer and I didn't bring it home so I dunno. But their current percentile is 98, super job Garrison!

Wow! That’s amazing. My child went to Garrison way back over 10 years ago and it was nowhere near what it is now. I’m very happy for the school community.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A quick year over year comparison of percentile ranks shows there has been a lot of change. These are percentage points.

Achievement Prep +35.
Burroughs +33.
Burrville +20.
Chavez down 30.
Cleveland down 57.
CMI up 14.
DCB down 43.
DC Prep had a rough year.
Haynes elementary down 32.
Stokes EE down 24.
Excel down 20.
Friendship mixed.
Garfield up 51, wow.
Woodson up 38.
Hearst up 29.
Howard up 35.
JOW down 37.
Kelly Miller down 30.
Ketcham up 29.
Kimball up 42.
King down 40.
KIPP had a rough year
Langdon up 22.
Boone down 29.
Lee Brookland up 23.
MacFarland up 21.
Marie Reed down 34.
Bethune down a lot.
Meridian down a lot.
Mundo up a bit
Murch down 34!
Noyes up 31
Oyster up 30-34.
Paul Middle down 29
Payne down 21
Randle Highlands down 40
Rocketship improved but still quite bad
Seaton up 22
Sela up 41
Shepherd down 27
SSMA up 42 so out of the danger zone
Chisholm up 30
Social Justice up 71!
Stanton up 39
Statesman up a lot
Stuart-Hobson up 23
Truth up 18-26
Thomas up 57
TMA up 22
Truesdell down 23
Tr4 up 25, TRY El up 16, TR Middle down 12
Van Ness down 22
Wash Global down 18
WLA up 17
Yy down 14
Watkins up 45
Whittier down 37

How did Garrison do?

I ran these numbers on my work computer and I didn't bring it home so I dunno. But their current percentile is 98, super job Garrison!

Wow! That’s amazing. My child went to Garrison way back over 10 years ago and it was nowhere near what it is now. I’m very happy for the school community.

It's really amazing how they took that school from the brink of closure. Well done team Garrison!

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Anonymous wrote:I just went through a handful of the DCPS elementary schools and looked specifically for science profiency. Some schools (like Ross and Janney) are at 70 percent, while others are closer to zero. So some schools are teaching science well and others don't really teach it at all.

I have a belief that the Science CAPE results are the best indicator of overall school quality.

I feel like I don’t know what the science CAPE is testing like I know what math and ELA are

I think because science education can really vary, the science CAPE shows you which schools have figured out how to do it and also go above and beyond the requirements. This is likely true for the rest of the curriculum, too.

The science test covers content from 3-5 grade. So if you weren’t in DCPS for one of those grades you may have missed the content being tested.

It’s four parts, each one is I think 45 minutes. If I remember correctly, in that 45 there are three scenarios/topics. A short reading passage maybe describing an experiment or phenomena. Then they have a few multiple choice questions and then a short response. It’s not really enough time and often kids don’t finish.

I suspect the kids who do well have enough background knowledge to do well. Plus consistent science content in school.

If there is a lot of reading on the science test then the low science scores can also be a function of low reading levels/ELA scores at a school.

If a school is low performing esp with ELA, they won’t be teaching any science. The whole focus and time is going to be on reading.

PP again and not necessarily true. My child’s school has a chunk of low performing ELA students and still teaches science.

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Neat to see the survey responses. Is that new this year?

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Anonymous wrote:Neat to see the survey responses. Is that new this year?

Yes, the charters are now using a version of the Panorama survey DCPS has been using for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:I am surprised by how badly Eliot-Hine performed. There are a lot of threads on DCUM trying to convince me that EH is the equivalent of SH, which this data does not support in the least... SH gets 84%ile (more or less equivalent to Hardy) and EH gets 21st%ile.

EH was substantially behind SH in both scores (basically SH is +20% in every measure) and growth (SH above average for both; EH below for both).

EH also had 35%(!!!) of students chronically absent.

I genuinely do not mean this to bash EH and I am glad it is getting increased neighborhood buy-in, but this Report Card presents a totally different reality than DCUM. EH actually came out behind Jefferson, but those are much closer and seems to be more about how you weight student achievement vs growth.

I was also surprised by EH. Those growth scores are… not good. In the context of having a good chunk of kids with room to grow, it suggests the school is not doing a great job. Hopefully it’s just an anomaly.

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Anonymous wrote:I am also surprised by the sizeable difference between the two Latin campuses. Both do pretty well 97%ile (OG) & 71%ile (Cooper), but there's a pretty big spread between them and the OG campus comes out ahead on both achievement and growth. It also come out ahead in attendance and there is a HUGE differential in teacher retention where OG's number is awesome (90) and Cooper's is concerning (64).

It really seems like almost no school manages expansion all that well; or at least, my default assumption is a second campus is likely to struggle a lot more.

I think it takes time for an expansion school or really any new school to get through its growing pains. I doubt original Latin had 90% retention in the first years of opening. MV Calle ocho is pretty strong now.

+1 MV CO

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am also surprised by the sizeable difference between the two Latin campuses. Both do pretty well 97%ile (OG) & 71%ile (Cooper), but there's a pretty big spread between them and the OG campus comes out ahead on both achievement and growth. It also come out ahead in attendance and there is a HUGE differential in teacher retention where OG's number is awesome (90) and Cooper's is concerning (64).

It really seems like almost no school manages expansion all that well; or at least, my default assumption is a second campus is likely to struggle a lot more.

I think it takes time for an expansion school or really any new school to get through its growing pains. I doubt original Latin had 90% retention in the first years of opening. MV Calle ocho is pretty strong now.

+1 MV CO

Meanwhile MVP is struggling. MV8 has a significantly higher SES

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Anonymous wrote:I am also surprised by the sizeable difference between the two Latin campuses. Both do pretty well 97%ile (OG) & 71%ile (Cooper), but there's a pretty big spread between them and the OG campus comes out ahead on both achievement and growth. It also come out ahead in attendance and there is a HUGE differential in teacher retention where OG's number is awesome (90) and Cooper's is concerning (64).

It really seems like almost no school manages expansion all that well; or at least, my default assumption is a second campus is likely to struggle a lot more.

I think it takes time for an expansion school or really any new school to get through its growing pains. I doubt original Latin had 90% retention in the first years of opening. MV Calle ocho is pretty strong now.

+1 MV CO

Meanwhile MVP is struggling. MV8 has a significantly higher SES

I don’t have kids there- I sent mine to Scrilli in the gap between daycare and pre-k- but the campus is really delightful and the parents I know with kids there really like it. It’s just a pleasant place to go to school.

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Anonymous wrote:I am also surprised by the sizeable difference between the two Latin campuses. Both do pretty well 97%ile (OG) & 71%ile (Cooper), but there's a pretty big spread between them and the OG campus comes out ahead on both achievement and growth. It also come out ahead in attendance and there is a HUGE differential in teacher retention where OG's number is awesome (90) and Cooper's is concerning (64).

It really seems like almost no school manages expansion all that well; or at least, my default assumption is a second campus is likely to struggle a lot more.

I think it takes time for an expansion school or really any new school to get through its growing pains. I doubt original Latin had 90% retention in the first years of opening. MV Calle ocho is pretty strong now.

I would say that there doesn’t FEEL like massive turnover at Cooper. I have two kids there two years apart. I knew just about all of my younger student’s main teachers from my older student having them although there are several new co-teachers in training. My older student has a mix of teachers who have been at the school and new teachers because they are adding new teachers at the upper grade levels every year. I wonder if those additions affect the percentages.

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Anonymous wrote:Neat to see the survey responses. Is that new this year?

Something I found interesting, is that well performing schools seem to have a higher sense of belonging for both students AND staff.

Which confirms something most of us know if teachers don’t feel like they belong students won’t either or they may feel as though they belong but their academic scores are subpar.

I found it odd that most schools opted out of as much of the teacher data as they possibly could.

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Anonymous wrote:I am also surprised by the sizeable difference between the two Latin campuses. Both do pretty well 97%ile (OG) & 71%ile (Cooper), but there's a pretty big spread between them and the OG campus comes out ahead on both achievement and growth. It also come out ahead in attendance and there is a HUGE differential in teacher retention where OG's number is awesome (90) and Cooper's is concerning (64).

It really seems like almost no school manages expansion all that well; or at least, my default assumption is a second campus is likely to struggle a lot more.

I think it takes time for an expansion school or really any new school to get through its growing pains. I doubt original Latin had 90% retention in the first years of opening. MV Calle ocho is pretty strong now.

I would say that there doesn’t FEEL like massive turnover at Cooper. I have two kids there two years apart. I knew just about all of my younger student’s main teachers from my older student having them although there are several new co-teachers in training. My older student has a mix of teachers who have been at the school and new teachers because they are adding new teachers at the upper grade levels every year. I wonder if those additions affect the percentages.

No, new positions don’t count in either the numerator or denominator in terms of retention. Small numbers mean each teacher leaving is a bigger percentage hit… but it’s clear that a lot of teachers did not return.

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Anonymous wrote:Neat to see the survey responses. Is that new this year?

Something I found interesting, is that well performing schools seem to have a higher sense of belonging for both students AND staff.

Which confirms something most of us know if teachers don’t feel like they belong students won’t either or they may feel as though they belong but their academic scores are subpar.

I found it odd that most schools opted out of as much of the teacher data as they possibly could.

The wording on the report card page is weird about teacher surveys but it’s not that school leaders opt out of sharing the teacher survey results. It’s that too few teachers responded to the survey to release results. That happens a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Neat to see the survey responses. Is that new this year?

Something I found interesting, is that well performing schools seem to have a higher sense of belonging for both students AND staff.

Which confirms something most of us know if teachers don’t feel like they belong students won’t either or they may feel as though they belong but their academic scores are subpar.

I found it odd that most schools opted out of as much of the teacher data as they possibly could.

The wording on the report card page is weird about teacher surveys but it’s not that school leaders opt out of sharing the teacher survey results. It’s that too few teachers responded to the survey to release results. That happens a lot.

No, the ones that have the minimum amount of data (50%) say that the ‘ This LEA chose not to ask questions in this topic.’

I’m not sure why teachers would choose not to respond unless it’s actually not anonymous or it’s a meaningless metric. We will see for the future since this is new.