Chance at DCI lottery with no preferences, 6th grade

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.


Close Adams? No, that's a terrible idea.

Besides Deal, Adams is one of the highest scoring DC public middle schools (current 8th grade math PARCC scores notwithstanding). The focus should be on improving what we have; not fixing what isn't broken.

Oyster:
PARCC ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 75%, 55%
Grade 7 Test: 74%, 60%
Grade 8 Test: 65%, 15%

Deal:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 74%, 64%
Grade 7 Test: 80%, 65%
Grade 8 Test: 74%, 24%

Hardy:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 54%, 41%
Grade 7 Test: 59%, 32%
Grade 8 Test: 59%, 34%

DCI:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 61%, 38%
Grade 7 Test: 57%, 44%
Grade 8 Test: 51%, 41%


What happened in 8th grade math? That drop is astounding. Actually, the drop is notable in all of the schools except DCI (and yes, their 6th & 7th grade scores were not stellar). What do the schools attribute that to?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.


Close Adams? No, that's a terrible idea.

Besides Deal, Adams is one of the highest scoring DC public middle schools (current 8th grade math PARCC scores notwithstanding). The focus should be on improving what we have; not fixing what isn't broken.

Oyster:
PARCC ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 75%, 55%
Grade 7 Test: 74%, 60%
Grade 8 Test: 65%, 15%

Deal:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 74%, 64%
Grade 7 Test: 80%, 65%
Grade 8 Test: 74%, 24%

Hardy:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 54%, 41%
Grade 7 Test: 59%, 32%
Grade 8 Test: 59%, 34%

DCI:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 61%, 38%
Grade 7 Test: 57%, 44%
Grade 8 Test: 51%, 41%


The kids at Adams aren't going to get dumber if they go to MacFarland. They'll be fine. Their same teachers from Adams could even work at MacFarland. And there'd be room for more ECE classrooms at Oyster so more kids could start immersion earlier, rather than many IB kids having to wait for kindergarten.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.


Close Adams? No, that's a terrible idea.

Besides Deal, Adams is one of the highest scoring DC public middle schools (current 8th grade math PARCC scores notwithstanding). The focus should be on improving what we have; not fixing what isn't broken.

Oyster:
PARCC ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 75%, 55%
Grade 7 Test: 74%, 60%
Grade 8 Test: 65%, 15%

Deal:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 74%, 64%
Grade 7 Test: 80%, 65%
Grade 8 Test: 74%, 24%

Hardy:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 54%, 41%
Grade 7 Test: 59%, 32%
Grade 8 Test: 59%, 34%

DCI:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 61%, 38%
Grade 7 Test: 57%, 44%
Grade 8 Test: 51%, 41%


The kids at Adams aren't going to get dumber if they go to MacFarland. They'll be fine. Their same teachers from Adams could even work at MacFarland. And there'd be room for more ECE classrooms at Oyster so more kids could start immersion earlier, rather than many IB kids having to wait for kindergarten.


No, Oyster is big enough. Those kids that don't get into Pk4 can wait until K--they'll be fine. I like having Adams close by in Dupont Circle. No one wants to drive all the way to MacFarland, especially with children on both campuses. Just NO.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.


Close Adams? No, that's a terrible idea.

Besides Deal, Adams is one of the highest scoring DC public middle schools (current 8th grade math PARCC scores notwithstanding). The focus should be on improving what we have; not fixing what isn't broken.

Oyster:
PARCC ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 75%, 55%
Grade 7 Test: 74%, 60%
Grade 8 Test: 65%, 15%

Deal:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 74%, 64%
Grade 7 Test: 80%, 65%
Grade 8 Test: 74%, 24%

Hardy:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 54%, 41%
Grade 7 Test: 59%, 32%
Grade 8 Test: 59%, 34%

DCI:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 61%, 38%
Grade 7 Test: 57%, 44%
Grade 8 Test: 51%, 41%


The kids at Adams aren't going to get dumber if they go to MacFarland. They'll be fine. Their same teachers from Adams could even work at MacFarland. And there'd be room for more ECE classrooms at Oyster so more kids could start immersion earlier, rather than many IB kids having to wait for kindergarten.


No, Oyster is big enough. Those kids that don't get into Pk4 can wait until K--they'll be fine. I like having Adams close by in Dupont Circle. No one wants to drive all the way to MacFarland, especially with children on both campuses. Just NO.


MS kids take the bus / metro and it's free. Mommy and Daddy don't need drive them.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.


Close Adams? No, that's a terrible idea.

Besides Deal, Adams is one of the highest scoring DC public middle schools (current 8th grade math PARCC scores notwithstanding). The focus should be on improving what we have; not fixing what isn't broken.

Oyster:
PARCC ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 75%, 55%
Grade 7 Test: 74%, 60%
Grade 8 Test: 65%, 15%

Deal:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 74%, 64%
Grade 7 Test: 80%, 65%
Grade 8 Test: 74%, 24%

Hardy:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 54%, 41%
Grade 7 Test: 59%, 32%
Grade 8 Test: 59%, 34%

DCI:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 61%, 38%
Grade 7 Test: 57%, 44%
Grade 8 Test: 51%, 41%


The kids at Adams aren't going to get dumber if they go to MacFarland. They'll be fine. Their same teachers from Adams could even work at MacFarland. And there'd be room for more ECE classrooms at Oyster so more kids could start immersion earlier, rather than many IB kids having to wait for kindergarten.


No, Oyster is big enough. Those kids that don't get into Pk4 can wait until K--they'll be fine. I like having Adams close by in Dupont Circle. No one wants to drive all the way to MacFarland, especially with children on both campuses. Just NO.


MS kids take the bus / metro and it's free. Mommy and Daddy don't need drive them.


I like dropping my MS kids off at school--and they like it too. My kids, my prerogative. Please worry about your own family.
Plus, my kids don't like taking public buses. To each his/her own.
Anonymous
Only a portion of kids take the 8th grade PARCC math test. The remainder take the algebra PARCC test in 8th grade. So the testing cohort for PARCC math 8th grade is different (likely less advanced, because the high scoring kids are more likely to take algebra early) than the cohort for 6th and 7th grades.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Only a portion of kids take the 8th grade PARCC math test. The remainder take the algebra PARCC test in 8th grade. So the testing cohort for PARCC math 8th grade is different (likely less advanced, because the high scoring kids are more likely to take algebra early) than the cohort for 6th and 7th grades.


Just FYI. DCI students don't take algebra or geometry PARCC -- they take the grade level math and then the integrated math exam in high school. The only other school that gives integrated math is BASIS.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.


Any college educated parent with a middle class income would be positively *negligent* to allow their child to attend Roosevelt.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.


Any college educated parent with a middle class income would be positively *negligent* to allow their child to attend Roosevelt.


Roosevelt PARCC school average is ELA: 3%, Math: 7%. Yikes.
Anonymous
Your kid's parcc score isn't going to be lower at Roosevelt than it would have been at Wilson.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DCPS can do what DCI is doing by sending students at all immersion elementaries to a single middle school. They are close on this with all of them having a programmatic feeder to MacFarland, but they need to go two steps more: route Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, and close Adams and send Oyster kids to MacFarland and Roosevelt too.

By doing these things, Adams will be available for elementary students (they could do PK-1 at Oyster and 2-5 at Adams or something similar) and more kids would get the opportunity for bilingual education and more IB kids would have PK slots and MacFarland would have more high-scoring kids in its feeder pattern. Deal and Wilson would have fewer kids in their feeder pattern, which is good because they are overcrowded.

Mt. Pleasant would freak out in a way that would be quite unbecoming (all the RPCV parents figuring out how to say they don't want their kids at Roosevelt) and the families with older kids IB for Oyster would be mad too, but the nearby families of babies who are sick of being shut out of PK at Oyster might temper that.


Close Adams? No, that's a terrible idea.

Besides Deal, Adams is one of the highest scoring DC public middle schools (current 8th grade math PARCC scores notwithstanding). The focus should be on improving what we have; not fixing what isn't broken.

Oyster:
PARCC ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 75%, 55%
Grade 7 Test: 74%, 60%
Grade 8 Test: 65%, 15%

Deal:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 74%, 64%
Grade 7 Test: 80%, 65%
Grade 8 Test: 74%, 24%

Hardy:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 54%, 41%
Grade 7 Test: 59%, 32%
Grade 8 Test: 59%, 34%

DCI:
ELA + Math
Grade 6 Test: 61%, 38%
Grade 7 Test: 57%, 44%
Grade 8 Test: 51%, 41%


The kids at Adams aren't going to get dumber if they go to MacFarland. They'll be fine. Their same teachers from Adams could even work at MacFarland. And there'd be room for more ECE classrooms at Oyster so more kids could start immersion earlier, rather than many IB kids having to wait for kindergarten.


No, Oyster is big enough. Those kids that don't get into Pk4 can wait until K--they'll be fine. I like having Adams close by in Dupont Circle. No one wants to drive all the way to MacFarland, especially with children on both campuses. Just NO.


MS kids take the bus / metro and it's free. Mommy and Daddy don't need drive them.


Adams begins at 4th grade - I doubt most friends would allow their 9 year olds to commute solo. Oyster campus is stuffed to the gills so no way to change that either.

We love the community created now and fostered across the two campuses. ALot of families who live near the Oyster campus do have walking carpools to the upper school.
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