Seaton vs. ITS

[Anonymous]

OP here, twist ending: we decided to stay at Seaton!

[Anonymous]

I'm a huge proponent of not moving your kid unless it's truly important to do so. Seaton is a lovely school.

[Anonymous]

Go Seaton!

[Anonymous]

Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

[Anonymous]

ITS is not everyone's cup of tea, and if OP prefers to bide her time and hold out for her true #1 pick, that makes sense. Kindergarten at Seaton is lovely and there is plenty of time for OP to lottery elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

Nope. The star report system measures everything same way. What measure do you not ageee with? Growth? PARCC scores adjusted for demographics? Retention? What exactly? Please be specific.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

Did OP mention she had a #1?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

Nope. The star report system measures everything same way. What measure do you not ageee with? Growth? PARCC scores adjusted for demographics? Retention? What exactly? Please be specific.

Many schools have such a small testing population (because not all kids take the PARCC and the scores are only reported for kids who start the school year near the beginning) that one or two kids can swing the numbers considerably from year to year. Reporting only one year of data also makes it less meaningful.

Gentrifying schools like Seaton are demographically different in different grade levels and the performance of younger cohorts are probably well above the performance of upper elementary at Seaton.

Seaton takes OOB preschoolers who didn't get into their IB preschool (such as Ross) and that pulls down the retention stats because those kids leave for K at the latest. But I don't think it really reflects negatively on Seaton. It's unfortunate that DCPS wants to expand preschool capacity yet penalizes schools in this metric for offering OOB children a seat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

Did OP mention she had a #1?

I'm the OP, our number one is Ross, which is improbable and likely impossible.

[Anonymous]

Seaton is fine. It’s the middle school gamble I couldn’t stomach.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

Nope. The star report system measures everything same way. What measure do you not ageee with? Growth? PARCC scores adjusted for demographics? Retention? What exactly? Please be specific.

Many schools have such a small testing population (because not all kids take the PARCC and the scores are only reported for kids who start the school year near the beginning) that one or two kids can swing the numbers considerably from year to year. Reporting only one year of data also makes it less meaningful.

Gentrifying schools like Seaton are demographically different in different grade levels and the performance of younger cohorts are probably well above the performance of upper elementary at Seaton.

Seaton takes OOB preschoolers who didn't get into their IB preschool (such as Ross) and that pulls down the retention stats because those kids leave for K at the latest. But I don't think it really reflects negatively on Seaton. It's unfortunate that DCPS wants to expand preschool capacity yet penalizes schools in this metric for offering OOB children a seat.

Seaton has 170 more kids than BH. They have about same at risk. The only difference I see between the schools is that Seaton is only 35% black and BH is 80%. I suspect that is the reason you have so many people saying “go Seaton” and never “go Bunker Hill”, but I’ll go sip my tea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

Nope. The star report system measures everything same way. What measure do you not ageee with? Growth? PARCC scores adjusted for demographics? Retention? What exactly? Please be specific.

Many schools have such a small testing population (because not all kids take the PARCC and the scores are only reported for kids who start the school year near the beginning) that one or two kids can swing the numbers considerably from year to year. Reporting only one year of data also makes it less meaningful.

Gentrifying schools like Seaton are demographically different in different grade levels and the performance of younger cohorts are probably well above the performance of upper elementary at Seaton.

Seaton takes OOB preschoolers who didn't get into their IB preschool (such as Ross) and that pulls down the retention stats because those kids leave for K at the latest. But I don't think it really reflects negatively on Seaton. It's unfortunate that DCPS wants to expand preschool capacity yet penalizes schools in this metric for offering OOB children a seat.

Seaton has 170 more kids than BH. They have about same at risk. The only difference I see between the schools is that Seaton is only 35% black and BH is 80%. I suspect that is the reason you have so many people saying “go Seaton” and never “go Bunker Hill”, but I’ll go sip my tea.

I haven't the slightest clue what Bunker Hill's demographics are. For someone IB for Seaton it isn't very convenient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

Did OP mention she had a #1?

No, but obviously it isn't ITS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seaton is a 3 star (out of 5) school that doesn’t even score as high as Bunker Hill. Boosters don’t take any time off huh.

Or maybe the star system is statistically dubious and not a reloable indicator of quality for early elementary.

Nope. The star report system measures everything same way. What measure do you not ageee with? Growth? PARCC scores adjusted for demographics? Retention? What exactly? Please be specific.

Many schools have such a small testing population (because not all kids take the PARCC and the scores are only reported for kids who start the school year near the beginning) that one or two kids can swing the numbers considerably from year to year. Reporting only one year of data also makes it less meaningful.

Gentrifying schools like Seaton are demographically different in different grade levels and the performance of younger cohorts are probably well above the performance of upper elementary at Seaton.

Seaton takes OOB preschoolers who didn't get into their IB preschool (such as Ross) and that pulls down the retention stats because those kids leave for K at the latest. But I don't think it really reflects negatively on Seaton. It's unfortunate that DCPS wants to expand preschool capacity yet penalizes schools in this metric for offering OOB children a seat.

Seaton has 170 more kids than BH. They have about same at risk. The only difference I see between the schools is that Seaton is only 35% black and BH is 80%. I suspect that is the reason you have so many people saying “go Seaton” and never “go Bunker Hill”, but I’ll go sip my tea.

If you would like to sing the praises of Bunker Hill please feel free to start your own thread.