These are not just about PARCC scores, but also rate students on year over year performance and other factors so worth taking a look at. A few surprises among the DCUM favorites -- IT and CMI are Tier 2. Washington Latin and BASIS MS are both Tier 1 with Latin scoring better overall. http://www.dcpcsb.org/report/school-quality-reports-pmf |
Why surprised? IT and CMI did not do well on the Common Core. |
Sela and EL Haynes Tier 1 |
PLUS: DCI outscored Basis. Hmm? Hmm... |
SSMA also Tier 2.
Worth looking at the 2 page reports on each school which shows how they got to the overall score. |
DC Prep's scores (as well as KIPP) are fantastic. |
That's very sweet. Of course, you're talking about "teach to the test" schools (KIPP is a perfect example); Yu Ying is for higher SES students than that, so it's not surprising the scores are better, but there are similar schools with similar philosophies. Sometimes their demographics are a problem. |
Agree with recommendation to look at the two page reports - especially second page. For example, DCI overall score is a bit higher than Basis, but 8th grade math college/career readiness at Basis (83.9%) much higher than DCI (31%). |
What? That makes no sense. How can the overall school for DCI be higher with a math score of 31%? That's troubling. |
Cedar Tree Academy-- is it new? It did very well! |
Ignore last post - numbers are off (compared 2015 to 2016). Still worth looking at! |
So proud of DCB! |
I am neither surprised that IT & CMI didn't do well (they are purposefully focusing on life skills and not academics -- which is not a jab at them, but a fact and their families want that), nor that DCI outperformed BASIS. BASIS should add more language at an earlier grade. It's overly focused on the foundational English and Math skills (which it does very well) and should increase the foreign language to 5 days a week earlier. It has great language teachers, let them do what they do so well. |
The charts are pretty clear. Kids at DCI improved more over time -- maybe the BASIS kids didn't show as much growth because they started out 'more proficient?' And the promotion eligibility number for BASIS (80%) meant they got a 5/10 on that measure vs. a 10/10 for DCI. |
How? |