PARC scores

[Anonymous]

Can anyone point me to figures on what they mean? How many kids get 5s for example?

[Anonymous]

In DC or nationally.

5 means student has mastered above grade level content. 4 means mastery of grade level content.

[Anonymous]

City-wide for all grades combined (DCPS + charters) 3% of students earned 5s in Math and 4% in ELA.

You can drill in by grade or school or LEA here:

http://results.osse.dc.gov/state/DC

[Anonymous]

Are people receiving their results?

[Anonymous]

Results come in the fall - last year it was late October

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone point me to figures on what they mean? How many kids get 5s for example?

Fives are supposed to be rare. The notion is that that there is grade level content, and if you master it all by the time you take PARCC, you get a 4 (analogous to an A student - but not related to grades obviously). If you get a 5, it means you were taught (or just knew) content that is to be taught at the next grade level (i.e., you knew stuff you weren't expected to know -- aka "exceeded expectations").

Across all states taking PARCC, in ELA between 3.9% to 12.1 % got 5s. In math, between 1.8% to 9.1% got 5s. The scores are reported by grade, so the range I post is lowest scoring grade to highest scoring grade.

http://www.parcconline.org/assessments/score-results -- look for the cross-state tables.

[Anonymous]

Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS. With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids. The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS. With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids. The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.

Mann has the highest elementary ELA scores - 23% got 5s (2016) and 19% got 5s in math.

Lafayette had the highest elementary math scores - 22% got 5s and 11% got 5s in ELA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS. With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids. The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.

Or maybe it is hard enough and those kids need to spend some time playing games and reading.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS. With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids. The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.

Mann has the highest elementary ELA scores - 23% got 5s (2016) and 19% got 5s in math.

Lafayette had the highest elementary math scores - 22% got 5s and 11% got 5s in ELA.

Well, of course. My DC's class at Murch had 41% 5s in math. "Rare" is meant in the aggregate. If a 5 means you exceeded expectation, then you would expect most kids across all test takers to gets 3s and 4s. And most kids do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS. With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids. The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.

Really, now what school is this? The highest rated middle school in DC only had a 63% passing score and Wilson cried "foul". So name the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS. With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids. The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.

Mann has the highest elementary ELA scores - 23% got 5s (2016) and 19% got 5s in math.

Lafayette had the highest elementary math scores - 22% got 5s and 11% got 5s in ELA.

Well, of course. My DC's class at Murch had 41% 5s in math. "Rare" is meant in the aggregate. If a 5 means you exceeded expectation, then you would expect most kids across all test takers to gets 3s and 4s. And most kids do.

Highly educated parents or not but those scores at Mann don't look that good considering ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS. With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids. The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.

Not rare in our DCPS either. DS got both 5s, but without highly educated parents- father has high school only, I have bachelor's and even that took me 17 years , I'm not a SAHM, no Au Pairs or tutors, no enrichments. DS does play baseball and that's the only thing he does. He doesn't do all his homework either and makes careless mistakes. He took Parcc last year for the first time and while his English was great (I'm a foreigner with bad English), his math was too close to 4.
This time I told him not to make careless mistakes and if he gets 4 on math this year, I will start checking his homework and add extras. He is a sharp kid, but not like the gifted and hardworking ones. I think it's his peers at school that have helped him do so well. I know my child and therefore I don't think it was a hard test, at least not in 3rd grade. I'm using my glass ball here and will tell you that he will get ELA also 5 in 4th grade, but math will be 4 most likely.
Elementary education has been great thus far, but have to keep an eye out for middle school. I wasn't even into his schooling until he showed up with 5s on Parcc. Seems like he is paying attention at school. He is in one of the WOtP elementary schools and he was better than 75% of his classmates if I'm not mistaken.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS. With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids. The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.

Not rare in our DCPS either. DS got both 5s, but without highly educated parents- father has high school only, I have bachelor's and even that took me 17 years , I'm not a SAHM, no Au Pairs or tutors, no enrichments. DS does play baseball and that's the only thing he does. He doesn't do all his homework either and makes careless mistakes. He took Parcc last year for the first time and while his English was great (I'm a foreigner with bad English), his math was too close to 4.
This time I told him not to make careless mistakes and if he gets 4 on math this year, I will start checking his homework and add extras. He is a sharp kid, but not like the gifted and hardworking ones. I think it's his peers at school that have helped him do so well. I know my child and therefore I don't think it was a hard test, at least not in 3rd grade. I'm using my glass ball here and will tell you that he will get ELA also 5 in 4th grade, but math will be 4 most likely.
Elementary education has been great thus far, but have to keep an eye out for middle school. I wasn't even into his schooling until he showed up with 5s on Parcc. Seems like he is paying attention at school. He is in one of the WOtP elementary schools and he was better than 75% of his classmates if I'm not mistaken.

I'm sure your indiv child did score well, but where are all these schools that the students are doing so amazingly well, overall PARCC scores do not support that the majority of students are doing well, neither WOTP or EOTP. Banneker if I recall was an exception!

[Anonymous]

Go to this link and click on 'explore by LEA'

You can see the 'top' schools (% students scoring 4s and 5s)

Click on the ELA column to see that list ranked by ELA; click math to see if that way.

http://results.osse.dc.gov/state/DC#explore-schools-leas