DC School Report Cards are up

[Anonymous]

Deal feeders, at risk %

Janney 5, 0% 88.43, 70.10
Hearst 4, 8% 77.32, 60.95
Murch 4, 5% 79.85, 58.63
Lafayette 4, 3% 78.00, 69.25
Shepherd 4, 15% 71.61, 76.25
Bancroft 4, 31% 80.16, < 10 AA students

PP here. I was interested in how AA students perform at these schools. I've added the Star Framework score for all students, followed by score for black students, for each school.

Overall, it looks like Shepherd has the best score for AA students. However, they don't offer breakdowns for "at-risk" etc. within subgroups, and so it's unclear whether the higher score at Shepherd is attributable to something about instruction, demographic factors, or a combination.

I did this quickly, but hopefully no errors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Deal feeders, at risk %

Janney 5, 0% 88.43, 70.10
Hearst 4, 8% 77.32, 60.95
Murch 4, 5% 79.85, 58.63
Lafayette 4, 3% 78.00, 69.25
Shepherd 4, 15% 71.61, 76.25
Bancroft 4, 31% 80.16, < 10 AA students

PP here. I was interested in how AA students perform at these schools. I've added the Star Framework score for all students, followed by score for black students, for each school.

Overall, it looks like Shepherd has the best score for AA students. However, they don't offer breakdowns for "at-risk" etc. within subgroups, and so it's unclear whether the higher score at Shepherd is attributable to something about instruction, demographic factors, or a combination.

I did this quickly, but hopefully no errors.

Oh, and forgot to add, it's curious why the score for AA students at Shepherd is actually higher than the score for all students--this is the only Deal feeder where that is true. I need to read a fuller description of how these scores were calculated.

[Anonymous]

Can you actually just list all the schools by their scores, instead of seeing them just sorted by star?

And, I'm confused about how the breakdown of the score by demographic is achieved. For our school All Students is higher than the actual score; also various demographics have their own scores but they don't seem to average to All Students - ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you actually just list all the schools by their scores, instead of seeing them just sorted by star?

And, I'm confused about how the breakdown of the score by demographic is achieved. For our school All Students is higher than the actual score; also various demographics have their own scores but they don't seem to average to All Students - ?

There is weighting involved in the subgroups (e.g. I know that students with disabilities are weighted 2x as much as ELLs or students with disabilities).

For the details you need to dig into the Framework Technical guide https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2018-19%20DC%20School%20Report%20Card%20and%20STAR%20Framework%20Technical%20Guide.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you actually just list all the schools by their scores, instead of seeing them just sorted by star?

And, I'm confused about how the breakdown of the score by demographic is achieved. For our school All Students is higher than the actual score; also various demographics have their own scores but they don't seem to average to All Students - ?

There is weighting involved in the subgroups (e.g. I know that students with disabilities are weighted 2x as much as ELLs or students with disabilities).

For the details you need to dig into the Framework Technical guide https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2018-19%20DC%20School%20Report%20Card%20and%20STAR%20Framework%20Technical%20Guide.pdf

Wait what? They’re assigning more value to some students?

[Anonymous]

Creative Minds is worse that I expected. Their special needs students actually measure twice as high than school average. White students less than black students and half as well as school average. Is there a school in DC where this is showing? White students perform the same as at risk population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you actually just list all the schools by their scores, instead of seeing them just sorted by star?

And, I'm confused about how the breakdown of the score by demographic is achieved. For our school All Students is higher than the actual score; also various demographics have their own scores but they don't seem to average to All Students - ?

There is weighting involved in the subgroups (e.g. I know that students with disabilities are weighted 2x as much as ELLs or students with disabilities).

For the details you need to dig into the Framework Technical guide https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2018-19%20DC%20School%20Report%20Card%20and%20STAR%20Framework%20Technical%20Guide.pdf

Wait what? They’re assigning more value to some students?

It's complicated - read the framework on how the scores are derived. There are also metrics in the mix related to how ELL students are moving toward English proficiency.

[Anonymous]

Washington Leadership Academy - wow. So impressive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you actually just list all the schools by their scores, instead of seeing them just sorted by star?

And, I'm confused about how the breakdown of the score by demographic is achieved. For our school All Students is higher than the actual score; also various demographics have their own scores but they don't seem to average to All Students - ?

There is weighting involved in the subgroups (e.g. I know that students with disabilities are weighted 2x as much as ELLs or students with disabilities).

For the details you need to dig into the Framework Technical guide https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2018-19%20DC%20School%20Report%20Card%20and%20STAR%20Framework%20Technical%20Guide.pdf

Wait what? They’re assigning more value to some students?

It's complicated - read the framework on how the scores are derived. There are also metrics in the mix related to how ELL students are moving toward English proficiency.

Go to page 60 of the framework.

[Anonymous]

Poor Langley

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Anonymous wrote:So-called HRC ESs

LAMB - 4
YY - 5
CMI - 3
ITS - 4
MV - 4
TR 4th - 4
TR Young - 3

Stokes Brookland - 3
Lee - 3

SSMA - 3
*Breakthrough too new for star rating

Are DC Bilingual, Capital City, and El Haynes not considered part of this group? (I know HRCS is not a real thing but these schools along with center city schools were all ones we considered for our list)

Bridges: 2

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Deal feeders, at risk %

Janney 5, 0% 88.43, 70.10
Hearst 4, 8% 77.32, 60.95
Murch 4, 5% 79.85, 58.63
Lafayette 4, 3% 78.00, 69.25
Shepherd 4, 15% 71.61, 76.25
Bancroft 4, 31% 80.16, < 10 AA students

PP here. I was interested in how AA students perform at these schools. I've added the Star Framework score for all students, followed by score for black students, for each school.

Overall, it looks like Shepherd has the best score for AA students. However, they don't offer breakdowns for "at-risk" etc. within subgroups, and so it's unclear whether the higher score at Shepherd is attributable to something about instruction, demographic factors, or a combination.

I did this quickly, but hopefully no errors.

Oh, and forgot to add, it's curious why the score for AA students at Shepherd is actually higher than the score for all students--this is the only Deal feeder where that is true. I need to read a fuller description of how these scores were calculated.

Um why do you find that curious? Do you know anything about Shepherd and the families that live in that neighborhood, or do you just assume that all AAs underperform compared to whites?

[Anonymous]

BTW - it looks like this website is optimized to display on your Iphone. A lot of the graphics are broken on Chrome and IE on my laptop.

[Anonymous]

So special needs students are 2x weighted? I wonder to what extent this favors schools that do a good job of identifying even milder SNs - bright students who just need a bit of extra support to gets those 4s and 5s on the PARCC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5 Star Elementary

Eaton Elementary School
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
Janney Elementary School
Mann Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Maury Elementary School
Oyster-Adams Bilingual School
SWS
Washington Yu Ying

Wow congrats to Marie Reed! That's awesome.