PARCC test results - slight increase in scores overall, white students see drop, Wilson plunges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Banneker predominantly African American?

Yes.

Banneker -

81.1% Black
.2% White
14% Latino
1.8% Asian
2.2% Multi-racial

Keep in mind that Banneker, like SWW High school, can send students who don't maintain a minimum GPA back to their neighborhood schools.

Not only they can, but they do. The "out" rates are astonishingly high (just looked at enrollment data a few weeks ago)

+1 My son is a junior at banneker and his class size has significantly dropped since freshman year. Kids don't even make it through freshman year before being asked not to return.

[Anonymous]

"Why are the grade 3 ELA scores at some of the traditionally high performing schools so much lower compared to the other grades?"

Yep. The Janney 3rd graders tanked ELA but not math, the 5th graders tanked math but not ELA, but the 4th graders rocked both. Very, very strange. One would think that in a school with a well thought-out curriculum and mostly the same staff year to year, the scores from grade to grade would be fairly consistent. My guess is that either there were excessive technology errors on some of the test days or the test design is just off. For Wilson, I'd guess parents may have told their kids to not worry about tanking the test, but I don't have the sense that happened at Janney since the issue seems to be with one test or the other but not both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Why are the grade 3 ELA scores at some of the traditionally high performing schools so much lower compared to the other grades?"

Yep. The Janney 3rd graders tanked ELA but not math, the 5th graders tanked math but not ELA, but the 4th graders rocked both. Very, very strange. One would think that in a school with a well thought-out curriculum and mostly the same staff year to year, the scores from grade to grade would be fairly consistent. My guess is that either there were excessive technology errors on some of the test days or the test design is just off. For Wilson, I'd guess parents may have told their kids to not worry about tanking the test, but I don't have the sense that happened at Janney since the issue seems to be with one test or the other but not both.

Were there significant numbers of students who opted out at Janney or Wilson?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Why are the grade 3 ELA scores at some of the traditionally high performing schools so much lower compared to the other grades?"

Yep. The Janney 3rd graders tanked ELA but not math, the 5th graders tanked math but not ELA, but the 4th graders rocked both. Very, very strange. One would think that in a school with a well thought-out curriculum and mostly the same staff year to year, the scores from grade to grade would be fairly consistent. My guess is that either there were excessive technology errors on some of the test days or the test design is just off. For Wilson, I'd guess parents may have told their kids to not worry about tanking the test, but I don't have the sense that happened at Janney since the issue seems to be with one test or the other but not both.

Same thing seems to have happened at all other elementary schools. ELA grade 3 may have been more (relatively) difficult than ELA later grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Banneker predominantly African American?

Yes.

Banneker -

81.1% Black
.2% White
14% Latino
1.8% Asian
2.2% Multi-racial

Keep in mind that Banneker, like SWW High school, can send students who don't maintain a minimum GPA back to their neighborhood schools.

Not only they can, but they do. The "out" rates are astonishingly high (just looked at enrollment data a few weeks ago)

+1 My son is a junior at banneker and his class size has significantly dropped since freshman year. Kids don't even make it through freshman year before being asked not to return.

Kudos to your son

(I was shocked when I saw the "out" data, and apparently it impacts boys especially)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Why are the grade 3 ELA scores at some of the traditionally high performing schools so much lower compared to the other grades?"

Yep. The Janney 3rd graders tanked ELA but not math, the 5th graders tanked math but not ELA, but the 4th graders rocked both. Very, very strange. One would think that in a school with a well thought-out curriculum and mostly the same staff year to year, the scores from grade to grade would be fairly consistent. My guess is that either there were excessive technology errors on some of the test days or the test design is just off. For Wilson, I'd guess parents may have told their kids to not worry about tanking the test, but I don't have the sense that happened at Janney since the issue seems to be with one test or the other but not both.

Same thing seems to have happened at all other elementary schools. ELA grade 3 may have been more (relatively) difficult than ELA later grades.

I pulled many of the other high performing schools and can find evidence of the grade 3 ELA issue only at Janney, Lafayette, and Eaton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking at the leading Capitol Hill-area elementary schools (% Language Arts, Math at or above proficiency standard):

SWS 66/63
Brent 61/61
Maury 44/44
Ludlow Taylor 42/40
Two Rivers 43/40
Watkins 30/39
Jo Wilson 24/35

This is pretty consistent with recent years and not surprising based purely on SES levels in the testing grades at each school.
Interesting that Maury and Ludlow Taylor are essentially the same at this point.
Two Rivers and Watkins are also in the same general range as Maury and LT.

Sorry, but what do the two numbers here represent? Is it last year compared to this year's data? As in, last year, SWS had 66%, and this year 63% meeting expectations?

Percent performing at or above grade level in Language (1st column) and math (2nd column), I believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Banneker predominantly African American?

Yes.

Banneker -

81.1% Black
.2% White
14% Latino
1.8% Asian
2.2% Multi-racial

Keep in mind that Banneker, like SWW High school, can send students who don't maintain a minimum GPA back to their neighborhood schools.

Not only they can, but they do. The "out" rates are astonishingly high (just looked at enrollment data a few weeks ago)

+1 My son is a junior at banneker and his class size has significantly dropped since freshman year. Kids don't even make it through freshman year before being asked not to return.

Kudos to your son

(I was shocked when I saw the "out" data, and apparently it impacts boys especially)

Essentially 1-3 students leave per month. I think we can assume that most of those are in 9th or 10th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Banneker predominantly African American?

Yes.

Banneker -

81.1% Black
.2% White
14% Latino
1.8% Asian
2.2% Multi-racial

Keep in mind that Banneker, like SWW High school, can send students who don't maintain a minimum GPA back to their neighborhood schools.

Not only they can, but they do. The "out" rates are astonishingly high (just looked at enrollment data a few weeks ago)

+1 My son is a junior at banneker and his class size has significantly dropped since freshman year. Kids don't even make it through freshman year before being asked not to return.

Kudos to your son

(I was shocked when I saw the "out" data, and apparently it impacts boys especially)

Thanks! I'd say 75% of the student body is girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking at the leading Capitol Hill-area elementary schools (% Language Arts, Math at or above proficiency standard):

SWS 66/63
Brent 61/61
Maury 44/44
Ludlow Taylor 42/40
Two Rivers 43/40
Watkins 30/39
Jo Wilson 24/35

This is pretty consistent with recent years and not surprising based purely on SES levels in the testing grades at each school.
Interesting that Maury and Ludlow Taylor are essentially the same at this point.
Two Rivers and Watkins are also in the same general range as Maury and LT.

Why is Two Rivers listed as a Cap Hill school? It's not located on Cap Hill and it's a charter school. Please don't misrepresent the data.

It is listed as a Capitol Hill-area school of interest to the poster. If you live on the Hill, this is the list of schools that are on most families' radar at some point. It's not "misrepresenting data" to include Two Rivers esp. if families are often comparing the charter alternatives to their own neighborhood schools. I'm inbound for LT with a toddler, and given these scores, less likely to put 2R on my lottery list if there's not some dramatically better outcome to be had. Happy to take the IB slot.

[Anonymous]

DCPCSB weighs in with its analysis of charter schools.
Helpful if you want to compare schools within that sector.

http://www.dcpcsb.org/evaluating/parcc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
"Why are the grade 3 ELA scores at some of the traditionally high performing schools so much lower compared to the other grades?"

Yep. The Janney 3rd graders tanked ELA but not math, the 5th graders tanked math but not ELA, but the 4th graders rocked both. Very, very strange. One would think that in a school with a well thought-out curriculum and mostly the same staff year to year, the scores from grade to grade would be fairly consistent. My guess is that either there were excessive technology errors on some of the test days or the test design is just off. For Wilson, I'd guess parents may have told their kids to not worry about tanking the test, but I don't have the sense that happened at Janney since the issue seems to be with one test or the other but not both.



Same thing seems to have happened at all other elementary schools. ELA grade 3 may have been more (relatively) difficult than ELA later grades."

That doesn't explain the drop in 5th grade. Same group of kids, for the most part, moving through Janney. How can such a large number "lose" proficiency in one year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking at the leading Capitol Hill-area elementary schools (% Language Arts, Math at or above proficiency standard):

SWS 66/63
Brent 61/61
Maury 44/44
Ludlow Taylor 42/40
Two Rivers 43/40
Watkins 30/39
Jo Wilson 24/35

This is pretty consistent with recent years and not surprising based purely on SES levels in the testing grades at each school.
Interesting that Maury and Ludlow Taylor are essentially the same at this point.
Two Rivers and Watkins are also in the same general range as Maury and LT.

LOTS of Cap Hill kids attend Two Rivers. Both campuses are located on the edges of Cap Hill and its a viable option for most Cap Hill residents.

Why is Two Rivers listed as a Cap Hill school? It's not located on Cap Hill and it's a charter school. Please don't misrepresent the data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking at the leading Capitol Hill-area elementary schools (% Language Arts, Math at or above proficiency standard):

SWS 66/63
Brent 61/61
Maury 44/44
Ludlow Taylor 42/40
Two Rivers 43/40
Watkins 30/39
Jo Wilson 24/35

This is pretty consistent with recent years and not surprising based purely on SES levels in the testing grades at each school.
Interesting that Maury and Ludlow Taylor are essentially the same at this point.
Two Rivers and Watkins are also in the same general range as Maury and LT.

It is scary to look at Watkins by ethnicity...White=90% plus; black= 26%
Not enough white kids at Ludlow to do that.

[Anonymous]

That's because for the past years, there has been cheating. The truth is finally coming out.