PARCC data is up

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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?

Because it is not unexpected.

Saddest comment of the day

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Can't find the link to school by school results on OSSE page, though I clicked around a lot. Where is it?

[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.

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.

The "city" does have schools where at-risk students are doing better; some of them:

Banneker - at-risk ELA 95% (too few math to release - likely because they took Alg 2 in MS)

Thurgood Marshall - Overall 47/26 At-risk 43/23

KIPP College Prep 32/26

McKinley Tech overall 65/31 at-risk 56/18

CHEC overall 34/7 at-risk 31/15

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Anonymous wrote:Can't find the link to school by school results on OSSE page, though I clicked around a lot. Where is it?

This is the landing page. You type in the name of the school you want to see. http://results.osse.dc.gov/

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Anonymous wrote:My kids' school performance was disappointing. Not because I feel some kind of jealousy of others, but I really hope for students' growth. I think staff are great. And no I'm not naming the school and starting a thing.

Same for our school; Powell.

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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 don't think that this is true at all. This sounds seriously naive. I think most UMC parents want their kids in school with a diverse group of mostly UMC classmates, whatever else is true. In this particular City, mostly UMC of course means mostly white.

When you say peer group, you're just talking about high-performing students? I wouldn't send my Asian kid to any school where all of the other students were white, AA, Latino, or a mix of those groups even if those kids were all knocking it out of the park on standardized tests.

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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?

eastern at 25% is quite impressive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The "city" does have schools where at-risk students are doing better; some of them:

Banneker - at-risk ELA 95% (too few math to release - likely because they took Alg 2 in MS)

Thurgood Marshall - Overall 47/26 At-risk 43/23

KIPP College Prep 32/26

McKinley Tech overall 65/31 at-risk 56/18

CHEC overall 34/7 at-risk 31/15

Thanks! Some of these numbers are just hearbreaking. What can we do?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

The "city" does have schools where at-risk students are doing better; some of them:

Banneker - at-risk ELA 95% (too few math to release - likely because they took Alg 2 in MS)

Thurgood Marshall - Overall 47/26 At-risk 43/23

KIPP College Prep 32/26

McKinley Tech overall 65/31 at-risk 56/18

CHEC overall 34/7 at-risk 31/15

Thanks! Some of these numbers are just hearbreaking. What can we do?

My guess is that the problems have been brewing for a while--even before elementary. I wish some of the funds for shiny new buildings could be reallocated for wraparound services starting really at the early childhood stage, or even at pregnancy.

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I don't understand--how does a school like McKinley, which requires students to score at least 4s on the PARCC to be admitted, have students scoring so at 1s and 2s in PARCC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand--how does a school like McKinley, which requires students to score at least 4s on the PARCC to be admitted, have students scoring so at 1s and 2s in PARCC?

I think that requirement is pretty new.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand--how does a school like McKinley, which requires students to score at least 4s on the PARCC to be admitted, have students scoring so at 1s and 2s in PARCC?

Because HS isn't MS. PARCC is only given once in HS and some students blow it off since it counts for nothing. Phelps also requires a 4 or 5 for admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand--how does a school like McKinley, which requires students to score at least 4s on the PARCC to be admitted, have students scoring so at 1s and 2s in PARCC?

Oof, likewise Phelps.

[Anonymous]

Phelps shows 20% proficient in ELA and 6% in math. That is not blowing off the exam.

[Anonymous]

Stepping back from the school by school for a moment. There has been a steady increase in PARCC scores city-wide over the last 5 years.

This chart shows the growth https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1163476017010417669?s=20