CAPE Score Comparison for Caucasian students at Schools with Spanish Immersion

[Anonymous]

The data OP presents is not of much value. It doesn’t matter the race of the kids. What matters is total percentages of kids at or above grade level so teaching can be at least on grade level.

Also some of these schools spend a majority of their time teaching to the test to get higher scores which does not translate into gaining valuable knowledge or critical thinking skills.

Look at total numbers and then look at the middle school data that these schools feed into. Looking at both will give you an idea if the kids are actually learning and building good foundations to carry with them to middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The data OP presents is not of much value. It doesn’t matter the race of the kids. What matters is total percentages of kids at or above grade level so teaching can be at least on grade level.

Also some of these schools spend a majority of their time teaching to the test to get higher scores which does not translate into gaining valuable knowledge or critical thinking skills.

Look at total numbers and then look at the middle school data that these schools feed into. Looking at both will give you an idea if the kids are actually learning and building good foundations to carry with them to middle school.

This is an oft repeated lie told at schools with weak test scores. No those test scores matter. They tell you how well the teacher is teaching their students. Furthermore, by only looking at white students, you’re reducing the chance that these kids are affected by external factors such as poverty etc.

You should look at this data with a critical eye.

[Anonymous]

As a parent with children at one of the schools on the poor end of the spectrum I am pretty unsurprised. We hear a lot about how these tests don’t matter, but my older children who graduated from this school definitely did better and seem to be far better prepared than those there currently. Trying to figure out middle school sibling preference to see if we could go to our local dcps which seems to do a lot better than our spanish immersion charter.

[Anonymous]

Oyster has a terrible couple of math teachers in grades 5-6. Really bad. Run, don’t walk, to another school. Also the Chinese that is foisted on the kids who excel at Spanish is just punitive, and there’s an insufferable Science teacher.

[Anonymous]

Mundo kids take a lot less English, so it’s not surprising. But they can read and write well in spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a parent with children at one of the schools on the poor end of the spectrum I am pretty unsurprised. We hear a lot about how these tests don’t matter, but my older children who graduated from this school definitely did better and seem to be far better prepared than those there currently. Trying to figure out middle school sibling preference to see if we could go to our local dcps which seems to do a lot better than our spanish immersion charter.

Let me guess- LAMB? Because me too.