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Anonymous wrote:Why does ATS perform so much better than the other option schools and many neighborhood schools? Perhaps APS should look to expand whatever they’re doing there elsewhere?

Compared with neighborhood schools, option schools tend to have more parents who are highly motivated/with the capacity to be involved with their students' education. Involved parents = better performing students. A larger number of involved parents = a larger number of high performing students.

Beyond that, I can't confidently say why ATS scores better than other option schools. The program they describe sounds pretty generic IMO. Not bad, I just never got clarity on what they did that was so different from neighborhood schools. We're at an option school with a surprisingly high (to some parents I've talked to) free and reduced lunch rate. Lower income families absolutely care about their kids, but don't always have as much capacity to be involved. I know this from personal experience as one of the lower income kids at the schools I grew up in. Maybe ATS has a lower free and reduced lunch rate?

http://schoolquality.virginia.gov/schools/arlington-traditional

Arlington Traditional School has an economically disadvantaged rate of 37% and Title I Status begins at 40%

Maybe PP can clarify what they mean by "perform so much better." Looking at English Academic Achievement on the school quality website linked above I found Alice Fleet (96%), Jamestown (94%), Discovery (96%), Abingdon (90%), ATS (98%), Campbell (96%), Claremont (96%), Key (97%). Those are all pretty high scores in that one metric. Barcroft (96%), Barrett (95%), Carling Springs (87%), Randolph (96%), and Drew (87%) all have free and reduced lunch rates over 70%. Perhaps the better question is what are Barcroft, Barrett, and Randolph doing that works so well which other schools should replicate.

Title one status means more "special ed" teachers like ESL, pull outs, tutoring, literacy support. I have a child with learning disabilities at a NoArl school and tried to move them from the much-sought--after school to a title 1. Wish wasn't granted but lotteried into a great situation.

[Anonymous]

Sorry...Title 1 means more money for things like research teachers mentioned above.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I am also wondering whether there is a chance I will move up in the wait list at Claremont. We are number 10 on the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi, I am also wondering whether there is a chance I will move up in the wait list at Claremont. We are number 10 on the list.

Maybe? We applied the first year they shifted from 6 to 4 kindergartens. We moved 15 spots total from our starting spot until school started.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hi, I am also wondering whether there is a chance I will move up in the wait list at Claremont. We are number 10 on the list.

Maybe? We applied the first year they shifted from 6 to 4 kindergartens. We moved 15 spots total from our starting spot until school started.

Did you get in once you moved up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi, I am also wondering whether there is a chance I will move up in the wait list at Claremont. We are number 10 on the list.

Maybe? We applied the first year they shifted from 6 to 4 kindergartens. We moved 15 spots total from our starting spot until school started.

Did you get in once you moved up?

No we never got in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does ATS perform so much better than the other option schools and many neighborhood schools? Perhaps APS should look to expand whatever they’re doing there elsewhere?

Compared with neighborhood schools, option schools tend to have more parents who are highly motivated/with the capacity to be involved with their students' education. Involved parents = better performing students. A larger number of involved parents = a larger number of high performing students.

Beyond that, I can't confidently say why ATS scores better than other option schools. The program they describe sounds pretty generic IMO. Not bad, I just never got clarity on what they did that was so different from neighborhood schools. We're at an option school with a surprisingly high (to some parents I've talked to) free and reduced lunch rate. Lower income families absolutely care about their kids, but don't always have as much capacity to be involved. I know this from personal experience as one of the lower income kids at the schools I grew up in. Maybe ATS has a lower free and reduced lunch rate?

http://schoolquality.virginia.gov/schools/arlington-traditional

Arlington Traditional School has an economically disadvantaged rate of 37% and Title I Status begins at 40%

Maybe PP can clarify what they mean by "perform so much better." Looking at English Academic Achievement on the school quality website linked above I found Alice Fleet (96%), Jamestown (94%), Discovery (96%), Abingdon (90%), ATS (98%), Campbell (96%), Claremont (96%), Key (97%). Those are all pretty high scores in that one metric. Barcroft (96%), Barrett (95%), Carling Springs (87%), Randolph (96%), and Drew (87%) all have free and reduced lunch rates over 70%. Perhaps the better question is what are Barcroft, Barrett, and Randolph doing that works so well which other schools should replicate.

Title one status means more "special ed" teachers like ESL, pull outs, tutoring, literacy support. I have a child with learning disabilities at a NoArl school and tried to move them from the much-sought--after school to a title 1. Wish wasn't granted but lotteried into a great situation.

those are not special ed teachers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does ATS perform so much better than the other option schools and many neighborhood schools? Perhaps APS should look to expand whatever they’re doing there elsewhere?

Compared with neighborhood schools, option schools tend to have more parents who are highly motivated/with the capacity to be involved with their students' education. Involved parents = better performing students. A larger number of involved parents = a larger number of high performing students.

Beyond that, I can't confidently say why ATS scores better than other option schools. The program they describe sounds pretty generic IMO. Not bad, I just never got clarity on what they did that was so different from neighborhood schools. We're at an option school with a surprisingly high (to some parents I've talked to) free and reduced lunch rate. Lower income families absolutely care about their kids, but don't always have as much capacity to be involved. I know this from personal experience as one of the lower income kids at the schools I grew up in. Maybe ATS has a lower free and reduced lunch rate?

http://schoolquality.virginia.gov/schools/arlington-traditional

Arlington Traditional School has an economically disadvantaged rate of 37% and Title I Status begins at 40%

Maybe PP can clarify what they mean by "perform so much better." Looking at English Academic Achievement on the school quality website linked above I found Alice Fleet (96%), Jamestown (94%), Discovery (96%), Abingdon (90%), ATS (98%), Campbell (96%), Claremont (96%), Key (97%). Those are all pretty high scores in that one metric. Barcroft (96%), Barrett (95%), Carling Springs (87%), Randolph (96%), and Drew (87%) all have free and reduced lunch rates over 70%. Perhaps the better question is what are Barcroft, Barrett, and Randolph doing that works so well which other schools should replicate.

Title one status means more "special ed" teachers like ESL, pull outs, tutoring, literacy support. I have a child with learning disabilities at a NoArl school and tried to move them from the much-sought--after school to a title 1. Wish wasn't granted but lotteried into a great situation.

those are not special ed teachers

and OG, and math re-educators. Clearly I'm not in education but do know that Title 1 schools have federal grants to cover those extra costs.