What do people like/not like about Lee Montessori?

[Anonymous]

We’re #10 on the PK3 waitlist for Lee Brookland and hoping for an offer. What do current parents like/dislike about Lee Montessori in Brookland?
Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Nice campus. Huge achievement gap, bad test scores relative to demographics.

[Anonymous]

Aren’t they tier 1? Test scores look similar to ITDS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they tier 1? Test scores look similar to ITDS

Huh? No, they are considerably worse. To be far, Lee has only recently had an upper elementary program. But ITDS has 60% 4s and 5s in ELA and 47% in math. Lee has 26% and 27% respectively.

[Anonymous]

I am also very curious about this and hope to hear from parents with kids in elementary grades (1-3 specifically). Do you feel your kids are thriving socially and academically - even if test scores are an issue?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Test scores are an issue because Lee tries to be as authentically Montessori as possible. You have to decide what’s more important to you - performance on PARCC, or an AMI Montessori education.

[Anonymous]

Are test scores an issue simply because the kids are not using computers? Langdon identified this as an issue and their test scores improved dramatically after they implemented some computer training for the kids the year that testing began (K or 1st, I don’t recall because we were focused on preschool during this tour)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Test scores are an issue because Lee tries to be as authentically Montessori as possible. You have to decide what’s more important to you - performance on PARCC, or an AMI Montessori education.

Fully 1/3 of Lee's kids are scoring a 1 in math. A 1! And 20% are scoring a 2. Those are pretty bad scores even for Montessori. LAMB's scores are much much better and they do Spanish in addition.

Is it authentically Montessori to have a really big achievement gap?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test scores are an issue because Lee tries to be as authentically Montessori as possible. You have to decide what’s more important to you - performance on PARCC, or an AMI Montessori education.

Fully 1/3 of Lee's kids are scoring a 1 in math. A 1! And 20% are scoring a 2. Those are pretty bad scores even for Montessori. LAMB's scores are much much better and they do Spanish in addition.

Is it authentically Montessori to have a really big achievement gap?

LAMB does test prep. Does Lee not do any test prep? There are long threads about this btw OP if you search. Seems like precious few actual families at Lee have responded either here or on those threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test scores are an issue because Lee tries to be as authentically Montessori as possible. You have to decide what’s more important to you - performance on PARCC, or an AMI Montessori education.

Fully 1/3 of Lee's kids are scoring a 1 in math. A 1! And 20% are scoring a 2. Those are pretty bad scores even for Montessori. LAMB's scores are much much better and they do Spanish in addition.

Is it authentically Montessori to have a really big achievement gap?

LAMB does test prep. Does Lee not do any test prep? There are long threads about this btw OP if you search. Seems like precious few actual families at Lee have responded either here or on those threads.

Even with no test prep at all, 33% scoring a 1 is pretty bad. That's several tiers below grade level.

[Anonymous]

CHML also has better test scores than Lee. Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CHML also has better test scores than Lee. Why?

Pretty sure they also do test prep.

[Anonymous]

Historically, Lee hasn’t done test prep. The Montessori method of teaching math is extremely different that what students would see on PARCC, but in my opinion, a lot better. The technology could certainly be the biggest hurdle.

LAMB introduced chromebooks in 3rd grade and does test prep. I personally see that as a negative because the only reason they do it is to have high PARCC scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CHML also has better test scores than Lee. Why?

CHML is far from being authentically Montessori in the grades that do PARCC testing.

[Anonymous]

Here are the 3rd grade PARCC released items from 2019 so you can have an idea of the types of questions asked: https://resources.newmeridiancorp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-Math-Grade-3-Released-Items.pdf