Is Duke Ellington also good for academically bright kiddos?
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US News best DC high school rankings 2019 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia
#1 Benjamin Banneker Academy High School #2 School Without Walls High School #3 BASIS DC #4 McKinley Technology High School #5 Ellington School of the Arts #6 Columbia Heights Ec #7 KIPP DC College Preparatory #8 E L Haynes Public Charter School #9 Wilson High School #10 Capital City High School Public Charter School Methodology: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings U.S. News ranked 17,245 public high schools out of more than 23,000 reviewed. This is the count of public high schools that had a 12th grade enrollment of 15 or greater, or otherwise had sufficient enrollment in other high school grades during the 2016-2017 school year to be analyzed. It is six to seven times larger than the more than 2,700 ranked schools in the 2018 edition. We did this by summing their weighted scores across six indicators of school quality, then computed for each school a single zero to 100 overall score reflective of performance across these metrics. The overall scores depict how well each school did on a national percentile basis. For example, a school with a score of 60 performed in the 60th percentile among all schools in the rankings. Ranks were assigned in descending order of overall scores. Schools below the 25th percentile have their scores concealed and display the entire bottom quartile's ranking range. Schools without a grade 12 or with very small enrollment are simply displayed as Unranked. This is a big change from last year's rankings where schools were ineligible to be ranked if they came up short on state assessments or graduation rates. Back then, only schools performing well enough on those factors were included; their rank order determined entirely by U.S. News’ College Readiness Index – measuring AP and IB exam participation and performance. With the revamped methodology, most schools' ranks changed significantly between 2018 and 2019 because of the broader competition in terms of the number of schools being newly ranked – more than 14,500. Consequently, a school's rise or fall in the 2019 rankings does not necessarily reflect a difference in its underlying data. Since the methodology changed so significantly this year, a school's ranking in the 2019 Best High Schools ranking can't be compared with its rankings in any previous U.S. News ranking. Why did U.S. News make such a large change in the methodology? With students, parents, educators and the general public in mind, U.S. News made improvements to the rankings so that they’re easier to understand, more thorough and include as many schools as possible. The revamped Best High Schools methodology enables users to more easily understand why some schools place ahead of others. Each school’s rank is linked to a single overall zero to 100 score instead of a labyrinthine filtering process that perplexed readers. For example, under the new methodology, a school with an overall score of 78 has placed in the 78th percentile nationally and thus is ranked more highly than a school with a score of 77. Under the old methodology, there was no overall score. A highly ranked school one year could become Unranked the next year because marginal changes in its data placed it on the wrong side of a filtering threshold. Besides being more intuitive than filtering, scoring schools on all their data versus just some of their data is a more thorough way to assess them. U.S. News also wanted to greatly expand the number of ranked schools so users can differentiate beyond the highest performing. In the new rankings, 100% of eligible schools are ranked compared with just 14% of all high schools in the previous rankings. Likewise, there was a four times increase from last year in ranked schools designated as charter and magnet. The revamped methodology will produce more historically comparable results going forward. Specifically, changes in schools' rankings will increasingly reflect their data because the universes of ranked schools each year will be less fluid. Data Sources U.S. News does not collect information directly from high schools. The data used to produce the Best High Schools rankings and published on usnews.com came entirely from the following third-party sources: • The Common Core of Data is the U.S. Department of Education website, updated annually, that contains basic data on enrollment, student ethnicity and other profile information on all public high schools in the U.S. The DOE collects the data found on this site directly from the schools, school districts or state departments of education. • Statewide math and reading level assessment tests and high school graduation rates data used in the 2019 rankings in almost all cases are from the 2016-2017 school year. These data are from each state's education agency websites or directly from state education agencies. • The College Board was the source of the Advanced Placement examination data for each public high school, when applicable, that were used in rankings calculations. The AP exam data used in the analysis are for 12th grade students in the 2016-2017 school year. |
Anonymous
| US news rankings - people still look at those? And for high schools? I don’t get why people don’t just look at the data for the key things they are interested in. DCPS has profiles for schools and you can easily compare, e.g., http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Compare.aspx?tab=1&school=402,442,471,463 |
Anonymous
| Wait, no you can’t compare that way. That comparison site shows you whether or not the school has a pool but no Recent student Test outcomes. |
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So, Wilson kind of sucks now. But that should be a topic of its own thread,if anyone's interested.
On topic: is Duke a good location for students interested in high academic achievement? Resoundingly, "no." DESA is an arts school, period. A more interesting question would be whether Banneker or Walls is any good for students interested in the arts as well as academics. |
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Well the OSSE report cards scores are pretty similar to US News: https://dcschoolreportcard.org/ but with more up to date data. BASIS - 5 Star, 99.32% Banneker - 5 Star, Score 99% SWW - 5 Star, Score 98.56% McKinley - 4 Star 85.43 Wilson - 4 Star, 74. 46 Ellington - 4 Star, Score 72.66% and so on... |
Anonymous
The entire methodology for US News has changed with teh 2019 rating. Looking at test scores and graduation rate, Wilson is higher rated now than it has been. |
Anonymous
Well, as we all know, in DCPS "graduation rate" is suspect if not meaningless. Test scores are similarly meaningless for purposes of rating a school's desirability, as basically we're rating scores that went up from 1 out of 5 to 1.2 out of 5. |
Anonymous
The PP’s point was Wilson isn’t ‘going downhill.’ In fact it is improving academically compared to where it was 6-7 years ago. |