PARCC data is up

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like this year Shepherd has enough white kids to report their PARCC results--94 in both reading and math, so comparable to WOTP schools.

Just picking a couple of WOTP schools at random, Janney's white students' scores are 90/86, and Lafeyette's are 86/90.

However, Shepherd's black and Hispanic students scores are far lower, which suggests there is room for improvement there--54/50 for black students, and 40/30 for Hispanic students.

In comparison, I looked at Lafayette's black student scores--48/54, and Janney, 59/45. Doesn't look like any of these schools are doing amazingly with black students.

Interestingly, Lafayette's Hispanic scores are pretty high--89/75. Ditto for Lafayette, 86/68.

I'd be interested to see what elementary schools have the highest PARCC scores for black and Latino students..

Great job Shepherd. It’s important to note that with Shepherd, 25% of their population (likely minority) are low income so not exactly apples to apples. What’s even more impressive to me is the scores between at risk and not at risk are very close 50/50 vs 60/56. Compare that with Lafayette (32/47 vs 82/84) and Murch (Janney didn’t have enough at risk) of (38/23 vs 76/76).

Not sure where you numbers above but looking at the list of all schools, Shepard is only in the 50 percentage with students at grade level in ELA and math, far below the EOTP schools.

Meant WOTP schools

Like PP mentions before, you should know that Shepherd has a far different makeup than schools WOTP (and not they are about same as Hearst). Shepherd’s white kids perform better than any school WOTP that I can see. Shepherd AA kids score higher than many WOTP AA kids (some of which there are not enough to count), same for at risk. Shepherd has 25% low income in their population in their school, WOTP averages like 6%. Do you really not know how to compare schools? Is that why DCPS is so bad in math?

Here’s some info to you. Most parents could care less about what race, SES status the students are. We care about peer group and how many students are at least at grade level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Large EOTP non-charter High Schools scraping the barrel bottom with math scores in the 0% - 3% range.

Ballou: 5% / 2%
Cardoza: 13% / 4%
Dunbar: 16% / 0%
Eastern: 25% / 0%

Why isn't this the #1 story in the city?

For these schools and their population -- what is their percent with 3s? Also wondering how many their students passed Alg 1 in 9th, and are prepared for alg 2 in 10th (the testing year). It could be they are taking a test on content they will get in 11th but PARCC won't show that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like this year Shepherd has enough white kids to report their PARCC results--94 in both reading and math, so comparable to WOTP schools.

Just picking a couple of WOTP schools at random, Janney's white students' scores are 90/86, and Lafeyette's are 86/90.

However, Shepherd's black and Hispanic students scores are far lower, which suggests there is room for improvement there--54/50 for black students, and 40/30 for Hispanic students.

In comparison, I looked at Lafayette's black student scores--48/54, and Janney, 59/45. Doesn't look like any of these schools are doing amazingly with black students.

Interestingly, Lafayette's Hispanic scores are pretty high--89/75. Ditto for Lafayette, 86/68.

I'd be interested to see what elementary schools have the highest PARCC scores for black and Latino students..

Great job Shepherd. It’s important to note that with Shepherd, 25% of their population (likely minority) are low income so not exactly apples to apples. What’s even more impressive to me is the scores between at risk and not at risk are very close 50/50 vs 60/56. Compare that with Lafayette (32/47 vs 82/84) and Murch (Janney didn’t have enough at risk) of (38/23 vs 76/76).

Not sure where you numbers above but looking at the list of all schools, Shepard is only in the 50 percentage with students at grade level in ELA and math, far below the EOTP schools.

Meant WOTP schools

Like PP mentions before, you should know that Shepherd has a far different makeup than schools WOTP (and not they are about same as Hearst). Shepherd’s white kids perform better than any school WOTP that I can see. Shepherd AA kids score higher than many WOTP AA kids (some of which there are not enough to count), same for at risk. Shepherd has 25% low income in their population in their school, WOTP averages like 6%. Do you really not know how to compare schools? Is that why DCPS is so bad in math?

Here’s some info to you. Most parents could care less about what race, SES status the students are. We care about peer group and how many students are at least at grade level.

I actually watch the 3s. If more at-risk or historically underperforming racial and ethnic groups are scoring 3, that's not bad. Persistent 2s and 1s are concerning. You aren't going to go from 2 to 4 in a year.

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Where are the science scores? They were supposed to be released this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like this year Shepherd has enough white kids to report their PARCC results--94 in both reading and math, so comparable to WOTP schools.

Just picking a couple of WOTP schools at random, Janney's white students' scores are 90/86, and Lafeyette's are 86/90.

However, Shepherd's black and Hispanic students scores are far lower, which suggests there is room for improvement there--54/50 for black students, and 40/30 for Hispanic students.

In comparison, I looked at Lafayette's black student scores--48/54, and Janney, 59/45. Doesn't look like any of these schools are doing amazingly with black students.

Interestingly, Lafayette's Hispanic scores are pretty high--89/75. Ditto for Lafayette, 86/68.

I'd be interested to see what elementary schools have the highest PARCC scores for black and Latino students..

Great job Shepherd. It’s important to note that with Shepherd, 25% of their population (likely minority) are low income so not exactly apples to apples. What’s even more impressive to me is the scores between at risk and not at risk are very close 50/50 vs 60/56. Compare that with Lafayette (32/47 vs 82/84) and Murch (Janney didn’t have enough at risk) of (38/23 vs 76/76).

Not sure where you numbers above but looking at the list of all schools, Shepard is only in the 50 percentage with students at grade level in ELA and math, far below the EOTP schools.

Meant WOTP schools

Like PP mentions before, you should know that Shepherd has a far different makeup than schools WOTP (and not they are about same as Hearst). Shepherd’s white kids perform better than any school WOTP that I can see. Shepherd AA kids score higher than many WOTP AA kids (some of which there are not enough to count), same for at risk. Shepherd has 25% low income in their population in their school, WOTP averages like 6%. Do you really not know how to compare schools? Is that why DCPS is so bad in math?

Here’s some info to you. Most parents could care less about what race, SES status the students are. We care about peer group and how many students are at least at grade level.

Well given that Shepherd's white kids are knocking it out of the park it appears that any snobbery about peer group doesn't hold, at least for this group.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like this year Shepherd has enough white kids to report their PARCC results--94 in both reading and math, so comparable to WOTP schools.

Just picking a couple of WOTP schools at random, Janney's white students' scores are 90/86, and Lafeyette's are 86/90.

However, Shepherd's black and Hispanic students scores are far lower, which suggests there is room for improvement there--54/50 for black students, and 40/30 for Hispanic students.

In comparison, I looked at Lafayette's black student scores--48/54, and Janney, 59/45. Doesn't look like any of these schools are doing amazingly with black students.

Interestingly, Lafayette's Hispanic scores are pretty high--89/75. Ditto for Lafayette, 86/68.

I'd be interested to see what elementary schools have the highest PARCC scores for black and Latino students..

Great job Shepherd. It’s important to note that with Shepherd, 25% of their population (likely minority) are low income so not exactly apples to apples. What’s even more impressive to me is the scores between at risk and not at risk are very close 50/50 vs 60/56. Compare that with Lafayette (32/47 vs 82/84) and Murch (Janney didn’t have enough at risk) of (38/23 vs 76/76).

Not sure where you numbers above but looking at the list of all schools, Shepard is only in the 50 percentage with students at grade level in ELA and math, far below the EOTP schools.

Meant WOTP schools

Like PP mentions before, you should know that Shepherd has a far different makeup than schools WOTP (and not they are about same as Hearst). Shepherd’s white kids perform better than any school WOTP that I can see. Shepherd AA kids score higher than many WOTP AA kids (some of which there are not enough to count), same for at risk. Shepherd has 25% low income in their population in their school, WOTP averages like 6%. Do you really not know how to compare schools? Is that why DCPS is so bad in math?

Here’s some info to you. Most parents could care less about what race, SES status the students are. We care about peer group and how many students are at least at grade level.

Then you don’t have to even entertain Shepherd as you would have looked past them when you saw 72% black and 25% low income. As for the many of us in the city that truly care about rising the whole boat (and not just faux liberals), we are thrilled there is a school like Shepherd. Kudos to the great families and teachers of Shepherd. The white families that did entertain Shepherd are all surpassing their white peers in the city all while being “exposed” to the elements of majority black kids and 1/4 low income (probably even higher in testing grades being that all lower grades are mostly IB). They must be doing something right to still pull off 94% scores.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB down quite a bit. Mundo is underwhelming as well.

Lee Montessori is also really disappointing. Down overall in ELA, only slightly better in math. But their black performance is really low -- 0 in math and 13% in ELA.

Yikes
Granted PARCC is far from perfect, but is this a model that should be replicated EOTR?

Lee is down in ELA but up in Math from last year. Their scores have never been all that. Wondering why this is news to you?

Shining Stars is significantly down in both.

Is this a group you trust to start a new middle and high school?

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Anonymous wrote:Large EOTP non-charter High Schools scraping the barrel bottom with math scores in the 0% - 3% range.

Ballou: 5% / 2%
Cardoza: 13% / 4%
Dunbar: 16% / 0%
Eastern: 25% / 0%

Why isn't this the #1 story in the city?

For these schools and their population -- what is their percent with 3s? Also wondering how many their students passed Alg 1 in 9th, and are prepared for alg 2 in 10th (the testing year). It could be they are taking a test on content they will get in 11th but PARCC won't show that.

Results are abysmal. Standardized tests should be geared to grade level so students above are not competent of what is expected at grade level.

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Anonymous wrote:Large EOTP non-charter High Schools scraping the barrel bottom with math scores in the 0% - 3% range.

Ballou: 5% / 2%
Cardoza: 13% / 4%
Dunbar: 16% / 0%
Eastern: 25% / 0%

Why isn't this the #1 story in the city?

Wow.

And incredibly those are the schools with $100M+ flashy new buildings. What a waste, and what incredible levels of corruption and incompetence.

Poor kids.

[Anonymous]

I'm having trouble figuring out the site--wasn't there a number last year showing the school's improvement? Is that just reflected in the graph? Did they abandon the "star" grading system, or is that still pending, or am I just missing it entirely. i'm from out of state so don't blame DCPS for my lack of understanding lol!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Large EOTP non-charter High Schools scraping the barrel bottom with math scores in the 0% - 3% range.

Ballou: 5% / 2%
Cardoza: 13% / 4%
Dunbar: 16% / 0%
Eastern: 25% / 0%

Why isn't this the #1 story in the city?

Wow.

And incredibly those are the schools with $100M+ flashy new buildings. What a waste, and what incredible levels of corruption and incompetence.

Poor kids.

Most of the kids are extremely at risk. Are you saying they don’t deserve a new building? This is nothing new. There are extremely at risk kids all over the country that can’t pass a standardized test, particular kids of color. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a nice building to be in.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm having trouble figuring out the site--wasn't there a number last year showing the school's improvement? Is that just reflected in the graph? Did they abandon the "star" grading system, or is that still pending, or am I just missing it entirely. i'm from out of state so don't blame DCPS for my lack of understanding lol!

Star won’t come out until later in year. This is just a teaser with raw data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm having trouble figuring out the site--wasn't there a number last year showing the school's improvement? Is that just reflected in the graph? Did they abandon the "star" grading system, or is that still pending, or am I just missing it entirely. i'm from out of state so don't blame DCPS for my lack of understanding lol!

The star reports and school improvement (median growth percentile, I think?) scores come later. These are just the raw PARCC scores.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB down quite a bit. Mundo is underwhelming as well.

Lee Montessori is also really disappointing. Down overall in ELA, only slightly better in math. But their black performance is really low -- 0 in math and 13% in ELA.

Yikes
Granted PARCC is far from perfect, but is this a model that should be replicated EOTR?

Lee is down in ELA but up in Math from last year. Their scores have never been all that. Wondering why this is news to you?

Shining Stars is significantly down in both.

Is this a group you trust to start a new middle and high school?

The Lee scores are surprising to some (I'd guess) because they were one of the first schools that got evaluated/scored on their early childhood and early elementary metrics before they had kids who were old enough to take the PARCC assessment - so they were ranked at a Tier 1 charter for the past several years based on non-PARCC data, and that gave them maybe a "better" reputation (uh, and the ability to replicate!) than maybe their PARCC results support.

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Anonymous wrote:Large EOTP non-charter High Schools scraping the barrel bottom with math scores in the 0% - 3% range.

Ballou: 5% / 2%
Cardoza: 13% / 4%
Dunbar: 16% / 0%
Eastern: 25% / 0%

Why isn't this the #1 story in the city?

Wow.

And incredibly those are the schools with $100M+ flashy new buildings. What a waste, and what incredible levels of corruption and incompetence.

Poor kids.

Most of the kids are extremely at risk. Are you saying they don’t deserve a new building? This is nothing new. There are extremely at risk kids all over the country that can’t pass a standardized test, particular kids of color. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a nice building to be in.

I agree that this should be #1 article in the WP! What is this city doing to educate its most at risk kids? Building shiny buildings is not enough.