The list is out: VA schools not cutting it under No Child Left Behind

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My approach has been to study the scores for the demographic profile my child fits in. I want and expect my child to get pass ADV scores, so I am looking for what percentage of the students are succeeding at that level, not just the pass score.

I wish there were an easy way to do this. I would like to know which schools in Ffx have the highest achieving black student population -- that is, of the schools that have a black student population large enough to be measured.

(I want to know this because I am black and I have a child who will be starting school in a few years, not for any nefarious purpose.)

There is a way to build your own reports from the testing data that may be able to give you absolute numbers of students by the various data categories.

http://bi.virginia.gov/BuildATab/rdPage.aspx

Good luck.

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I'd question that assertion, given that W-L is over-crowded and Wakefield is under-capacity. Not redistricting when it would seem to be in the interests of both schools is close to perpetuating the segregration that has existed for many years.

My impression was that they are looking at redistricting, and that W-L is far from all high SES.

Yup. W-L per their school profile, is 31% hispanic, 10% african american, and 33% economically disadvantaged. Shifting some W-L areas to Wakefield may be a good idea, but it hardly seems to me that failing to do so constitutes "segregation".

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I believe this strongly about APS. I think it has strong schools in North Arlington, but if you compare South Arlington and Alexandria and they're about the same - high achieving kids in certain groups at South APS schools, but the majority are lower achieving kids. APS has a similar achievement gap as Alexandria, but since it is such a big district, it gets to segregate its kids because higher SES kids are all generally concentrated in the northern part of the district.

Except its not deliberately segregating its schools - its just that historic housing and transportation patterns have resulted in that. And there is certainly segregation among schools to some extent in ACPS, and in FCPS. Just somewhat less, and the lower performing schools are more geographically scattered.

I'd question that assertion, given that W-L is over-crowded and Wakefield is under-capacity. Not redistricting when it would seem to be in the interests of both schools is close to perpetuating the segregration that has existed for many years.

Yes, and they made the same decisions with elementary overcrowding--there were hundreds of seats at S. Arlington schools, but they chose to put lots of trailers in N. Arlington rather than shift everyone southward. They may not have created the segregation, but the Board has done little to undo it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

My approach has been to study the scores for the demographic profile my child fits in. I want and expect my child to get pass ADV scores, so I am looking for what percentage of the students are succeeding at that level, not just the pass score.

I wish there were an easy way to do this. I would like to know which schools in Ffx have the highest achieving black student population -- that is, of the schools that have a black student population large enough to be measured.

(I want to know this because I am black and I have a child who will be starting school in a few years, not for any nefarious purpose.)

There is a way to build your own reports from the testing data that may be able to give you absolute numbers of students by the various data categories.

http://bi.virginia.gov/BuildATab/rdPage.aspx

Good luck.

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