Well, Langley does have an improvement relative to last year, which is something. Some schools don't show improvement at all. |
Eliot Hine is on the move. Correct me if I pulled numbers incorrectly, I was using an old PARCC presentation slide of their year by year performance from a prior year.
ELA: 2017-2018: 13% 2018-2019: 23% 2021-2022: 28% 2021-23: 34% Math: 2017-2018: 4% 2018-2019: 13% 2021-2022: 10% 2021-23: 19% Of note, the scores stratified by race show very wide differences. Among Black, still improvement. ELA 2018: 9% 2023: 22% Math 2018: 2% 2023: 7% |
What are the numbers? |
Well, I'm not really sure my analysis is accurate, but I think it's like this: Last year at Langley, almost 7% got a 4 or 5 in math, and 10% a 4 or 5 in ELA. This year, almost 10% got a 4 or 5 in math and 17% got a 4 or 5 in ELA. So I think those are statistically significant increases... not sure. It's hard with schools with such small testing populations, the numbers can jump around. |
Those scores are terrible. |
I just ran a quick conditional formatting and here's what jumps out at me, for elementary and middle schools relative to last year.
Well done Brent Atrocious math results at Brookland Middle, but slight improvement over last year. Big improvement at Burroughs Small improvement at CHML CMI did better DCB did better DC Scholars did better Great job Deal Well done DCI Dorothy Height took a dip Eagle Academy Congress Heights worse than last year-- really low Eliot-Hine went up Stokes Brookland improved but Stokes EE went down Some improvement in Friendship schools, mixed results Well done Garrison, big improvements! HD Cooke improved Harmony improved Hearst fell a bit in ELA, improved in math Howard still really struggling with math Hyde-Addison showed a big improvement Ingenuity Prep improved ITS seems to have dipped a little, hard to say without digging into it more. Not so hot at JO Wilson Slight improvement at Jefferson KIPP schools seem overall slight improvement Well done Lafayette! Langley improved a bit Slight improvement at LAMB Lee Brookland improved MacFarland improved Mann dropped a bit, quite a bit in ELA. Increase at Marie Reed Big increase at Maury Slight improvement at McKinley Middle I think slight improvement at Meridian Miner about the same, pretty low Mundo Calle Ocho did ok, P St had mixed results Murch improved in math Improvement at Nalle Improvement at Noyes Oyster improved Patterson improved Paul slight improvement (middle) Big improvement at Payne Improvement at Perry St Prep Big math improvement at Powell Randle Highlands improved Raymond mixed but big improvement in math Rocketship did a lot better at Infinity, other sites not so much. Big improvements at Roots Well done Ross!! SWW@FS improved math SWS slight improvement Improvement at Seaton Big improvements at Sela SSMA did slightly worse Mixed results at Simon Smothers improved ELA Social Justice improved Mixed results at Sousa Big improvement at Stanton Well done Stoddert! Stuart-Hobson improved on both Takoma improved on both Truth improved on both Thomas improved ELA Thomson did not do as well Truesdell did not do as well Tubman did not do as well Big improvements at Turner TR 4th elementary down a little, TRY elementary up a little, TRY middle up a little Tyler improved Van Ness down a little in ELA Walker-Jones has a big improvement in math Washington Global improved Latin 2nd improved (middle) YY improved Watkins slight improvement in math Wheatley improved ELA Big improvements at Whittier |
Here are the proficiency results for high school. It looks like Walls (a selective school that only accepts students with an A average GPA) has slightly pulled ahead of BASIS DC (a 100% lottery school).
Walls ELA 94.66 Math 67.44 BASIS DC ELA 92.06 Math 66.12 Banneker ELA 88.62 Math 44.52 Latin ELA 70.71 Math 30.47 DCI ELA 41.87 Math 20.74 |
This is high school? Why is DCI so bad? |
There's a lot more than meets the eye with high school math PARCC scores. Analyze with caution. |
How did Powell, Bruce Monroe, and Marie Reed do? |
Yes. But they are moving upward. To evaluate real school performance, scores need to be stratified by SES. Unfortunately, DC doesn't provide that in a helpful way. It's otherwise difficult to understand teaching effectiveness when the primary differences between school scores are explained by SES. Essentially, if you cut the data by ethnicity, you'll see that school scores don't differ as much as you think they do. Race/Ethnicity White - ELA: Hardy: 86% Deal: 92% Eliot Hine: >95% Race/Ethnicity White - Math: Hardy - DS, too small to report Deal: 84% Eliot-Hine: 86% #s too small to do a similar report for different middle schools for other ethnicities. |
Kid at DCI? |
Look, I have no child anywhere near highschool (yet), but we should consider what probably is/isn't an actual meaningful/statistical difference. SWW vs. Basis look the same. When comparing schools, figuring out differences in SES makeup also matters. It's really tough to do an apples to apples comparison without taking that into account. |
Algebra I and Geometry are tested. So this tells us 9/10 students currently enrolled in Algebra and Geometry can’t do those types of math. PPs kid was counted as a kid who can do math when they were in those courses in previous years. |
Not at all, I don't even have a child of that age. But if you read backwards through this thread and others, you'll see a discussion of how the math PARCC works and what it reports and does not report. I'm not saying any one school is better in math than another-- I'd have to really look through the data, and it depends on the modeling assumptions you make. The sad truth is PARCC doesn't tell us very much about math after 9th grade. |