WE WANT SCHOOL WIDE SOL SCORES

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Anonymous wrote:It is infuriating OP. I cannot for the life of me understand why this is so hard for them. I can't help but think the results dismal and they want time to pass so people forget about it.

These scores absolutely matter. They are an indicator of the competency of the school administration, a measure of the academic level the students are at, and indicator of teacher strength. These are all important factors if one is moving to FCPS to see which are school is the best for their kid.

These scores do not matter. There are kids who don’t speak English being forced to take these tests. It only matters how your kid does.

Exactly.
And there are ways to know which schools are best to be avoided.
Simple.

LOL not really. FCPS is FCPS...you know how I know. I've taught all over the county in the last 20 years not much difference from Vienna schools compared to Chantilly schools.

Weird. Some teachers say the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
WHEN WILL THE STATE RELEASE THS SCHOOL SOL SCORES?

I know for Science classes a 50% WAS PASSING, SO THEY MIGHT BE HIGH, BUT WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO RELEASE THE SOL SCORES?
AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTION?
WE WANT THEM NOW, I TALKED TO THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TODAY AND SHE TOLD ME SHE CAN'T TELL ME WHAT OTHER KIDS GOT IN THEIR SOL TEST..... THEY CAN'T EVEN TELL ME THE SCHOOL AVERAGE.

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING? ARE YOU A BOOMER?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SOLs are not hard enough to use as a proof of TJ’s lack of decline.

What do you mean? I'm not a TJ booster but tell me that this is not meaningful:

Ranking by PASS ADVANCED RATE

Math

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 53.13
2 Langley High 26.05
3 Madison High 24.53
4 Chantilly High 23.66
5 Woodson High 21.05
6 Lake Braddock Secondary 19.74
7 McLean High 18.58
8 Oakton High 17.01
9 Centreville High 14.04
10 Robinson Secondary 13.58

English

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 93.62
2 Langley High 58.82
3 Madison High 51.15
4 Oakton High 50.83
5 McLean High 50.78
6 Woodson High 47.51
7 West Springfield High 44.84
8 Chantilly High 44.21
9 Marshall High 43.4
10 South Lakes High 38.7

Science

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 57.63 Science
2 Marshall High 31.36
3 Oakton High 30.01
4 Langley High 29.1
5 Woodson High 27.55
6 McLean High 25.67
7 West Springfield High 24.19
8 Chantilly High 22.96
9 Centreville High 17.46
10 Madison High 16.45


And ranking by PASS RATE

Math

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 99.04
2 Woodson High 92.63
3 Langley High 92.53
4 West Springfield High 92.34
5 Madison High 91.51
6 Oakton High 90.53
7 Marshall High 89.92
8 McLean High 87.17
9 Robinson Secondary 86.03
10 Lake Braddock Secondary 85.52

English

1 Langley High 98.82
2 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 98.41
3 West Springfield High 96.56
4 Woodson High 95.83
5 McLean High 95.67
6 Marshall High 95.4
7 Oakton High 94.44
8 Madison High 93.7
9 Centreville High 93.29
10 Chantilly High 92.85

Science

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 100
2 Langley High 95.26
3 Woodson High 90.96
4 Oakton High 90.69
5 West Springfield High 90.48
6 McLean High 86.88
7 Marshall High 85.55
8 Chantilly High 85.46
9 Madison High 85.37
10 Robinson Secondary 84.5

Interesting to see the Pass Advanced Rate results for TJ from before Covid:

2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology English:Reading 59.14
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology English:Writing 96.61
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology History and Social Science 76.32
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology Mathematics 91.35
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology Science 89.83

Indeed it is interesting, although to be fair, you don't want to simply compare TJ to itself but compare TJs' slide to the slides of other schools. If you look at McLean's pass rates now, for example, they aren't what you'd expect for a top pyramid school. I had to recheck the data to make sure it wasn't an error.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is infuriating OP. I cannot for the life of me understand why this is so hard for them. I can't help but think the results dismal and they want time to pass so people forget about it.

These scores absolutely matter. They are an indicator of the competency of the school administration, a measure of the academic level the students are at, and indicator of teacher strength. These are all important factors if one is moving to FCPS to see which are school is the best for their kid.

These scores do not matter. There are kids who don’t speak English being forced to take these tests. It only matters how your kid does.

DP. But as a tax paying and voting citizen, the scores matter to me. I want to know how the schools in my community are, or are not, meeting the needs of all children. Shame on you.

Except you cannot compare a school that is predominantly white to one with a larger ESL or SPEd population. They are not bad schools, they just don’t have enough resources to help those kids.

Uhm yes, that’s my point. Show us the scores so we can think about where resources need to go!

Who is “us?” Who is “we?” You have exactly *zero* control over where resources go.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole post has to be a troll.

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As are about 75% of the posts here in the FCPS forum. I swear there’s a points system in the Liberty Moms group where they earn points for inflammatory posts.

Seriously. I hear when they hit 100, they get a toaster oven, or maybe a Yeti tumbler.

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Anonymous wrote:Shame on FCPS!

FCPS used to release all this data on their school profiles. The state VA Dept of Education no longer allows that--they want to control all the data releases. Blame them not FCPS.

They never released individual scores. The other thing is if kids fail but make progress from previous year it counts as a pass.

They released all the percentages of Pass Proficient, Pass Advanced, and not Passing. CLose enough.

Yes, but these tests are unfair to ESL kids. So the data is skewed.

Some kids are exempt from taking them.

Very few kids are exempt - a tiny fraction of a percent.

What does this matter?

Why does it matter? Because a PP was saying many ESL kids are exempt. Implying that schools with high ESL populations have a shot at a good score because so many kids are exempt. They are not exempt. It matters because kids who have been in the US less than a year are expected to take and pass these tests. It matters because kids who have been in this country 2 or 3 years are expected to take and pass these tests.

And when they don’t pass and a school with a lot of ESL students gets a low score everyone likes to say how bad the school is. Or how great their own school is when really it’s just a school of fortunate white, born in the USA upper income parents who succeeded in having a white born in the USA kid who goes to a school filled with other upper middle income white kids.

SOL scores mean NOTHING unless looked at in context.

Why do people like you have to always sh*t on white people? You could have made your same point without bringing race into it.

Oh, PLEASE. Won’t someone think of the pooooor, persecuted white people?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
WHEN WILL THE STATE RELEASE THS SCHOOL SOL SCORES?

I know for Science classes a 50% WAS PASSING, SO THEY MIGHT BE HIGH, BUT WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO RELEASE THE SOL SCORES?
AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTION?
WE WANT THEM NOW, I TALKED TO THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TODAY AND SHE TOLD ME SHE CAN'T TELL ME WHAT OTHER KIDS GOT IN THEIR SOL TEST..... THEY CAN'T EVEN TELL ME THE SCHOOL AVERAGE.

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING? ARE YOU A BOOMER?

Wow, a whole new level of stupidity (and ageism) on DCUM. Boomer? Because they are typing in all caps? Do you even f'ing know what a boomer is? Hint: it's *NOT* someone who vaguely seems like they could be slightly older than you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:SOLs are not hard enough to use as a proof of TJ’s lack of decline.

What do you mean? I'm not a TJ booster but tell me that this is not meaningful:

Ranking by PASS ADVANCED RATE

Math

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 53.13
2 Langley High 26.05
3 Madison High 24.53
4 Chantilly High 23.66
5 Woodson High 21.05
6 Lake Braddock Secondary 19.74
7 McLean High 18.58
8 Oakton High 17.01
9 Centreville High 14.04
10 Robinson Secondary 13.58

English

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 93.62
2 Langley High 58.82
3 Madison High 51.15
4 Oakton High 50.83
5 McLean High 50.78
6 Woodson High 47.51
7 West Springfield High 44.84
8 Chantilly High 44.21
9 Marshall High 43.4
10 South Lakes High 38.7

Science

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 57.63 Science
2 Marshall High 31.36
3 Oakton High 30.01
4 Langley High 29.1
5 Woodson High 27.55
6 McLean High 25.67
7 West Springfield High 24.19
8 Chantilly High 22.96
9 Centreville High 17.46
10 Madison High 16.45


And ranking by PASS RATE

Math

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 99.04
2 Woodson High 92.63
3 Langley High 92.53
4 West Springfield High 92.34
5 Madison High 91.51
6 Oakton High 90.53
7 Marshall High 89.92
8 McLean High 87.17
9 Robinson Secondary 86.03
10 Lake Braddock Secondary 85.52

English

1 Langley High 98.82
2 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 98.41
3 West Springfield High 96.56
4 Woodson High 95.83
5 McLean High 95.67
6 Marshall High 95.4
7 Oakton High 94.44
8 Madison High 93.7
9 Centreville High 93.29
10 Chantilly High 92.85

Science

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 100
2 Langley High 95.26
3 Woodson High 90.96
4 Oakton High 90.69
5 West Springfield High 90.48
6 McLean High 86.88
7 Marshall High 85.55
8 Chantilly High 85.46
9 Madison High 85.37
10 Robinson Secondary 84.5

Interesting to see the Pass Advanced Rate results for TJ from before Covid:

2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology English:Reading 59.14
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology English:Writing 96.61
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology History and Social Science 76.32
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology Mathematics 91.35
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology Science 89.83

Indeed it is interesting, although to be fair, you don't want to simply compare TJ to itself but compare TJs' slide to the slides of other schools. If you look at McLean's pass rates now, for example, they aren't what you'd expect for a top pyramid school. I had to recheck the data to make sure it wasn't an error.

TJ dropped more in science and math than some other schools but had farther to fall and the percent change is not much different than McLean:

TJ pass advanced rates from 2018-19 to 2022-23:
Eng (reading): 59.14, 93.62
Math: 91.35, 53.13
Sci: 89.83, 57.63

McLean:
Eng: 18.59, 50.87
Math: 31.76, 18.7
Sci: 38.75, 25.6

Not sure what to make of it, but I wouldn't be so quick to attribute this to diffs among the schools (vs diffs at home in how supported students were to catch up or repeat a year).

Also, looks like MANY schools' show a big uptick in the % passing advanced in English--reading. Anyone have any idea what that's about? Grade inflation?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SOLs are not hard enough to use as a proof of TJ’s lack of decline.

What do you mean? I'm not a TJ booster but tell me that this is not meaningful:

Ranking by PASS ADVANCED RATE

Math

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 53.13
2 Langley High 26.05
3 Madison High 24.53
4 Chantilly High 23.66
5 Woodson High 21.05
6 Lake Braddock Secondary 19.74
7 McLean High 18.58
8 Oakton High 17.01
9 Centreville High 14.04
10 Robinson Secondary 13.58

English

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 93.62
2 Langley High 58.82
3 Madison High 51.15
4 Oakton High 50.83
5 McLean High 50.78
6 Woodson High 47.51
7 West Springfield High 44.84
8 Chantilly High 44.21
9 Marshall High 43.4
10 South Lakes High 38.7

Science

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 57.63 Science
2 Marshall High 31.36
3 Oakton High 30.01
4 Langley High 29.1
5 Woodson High 27.55
6 McLean High 25.67
7 West Springfield High 24.19
8 Chantilly High 22.96
9 Centreville High 17.46
10 Madison High 16.45


And ranking by PASS RATE

Math

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 99.04
2 Woodson High 92.63
3 Langley High 92.53
4 West Springfield High 92.34
5 Madison High 91.51
6 Oakton High 90.53
7 Marshall High 89.92
8 McLean High 87.17
9 Robinson Secondary 86.03
10 Lake Braddock Secondary 85.52

English

1 Langley High 98.82
2 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 98.41
3 West Springfield High 96.56
4 Woodson High 95.83
5 McLean High 95.67
6 Marshall High 95.4
7 Oakton High 94.44
8 Madison High 93.7
9 Centreville High 93.29
10 Chantilly High 92.85

Science

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 100
2 Langley High 95.26
3 Woodson High 90.96
4 Oakton High 90.69
5 West Springfield High 90.48
6 McLean High 86.88
7 Marshall High 85.55
8 Chantilly High 85.46
9 Madison High 85.37
10 Robinson Secondary 84.5

Interesting to see the Pass Advanced Rate results for TJ from before Covid:

2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology English:Reading 59.14
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology English:Writing 96.61
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology History and Social Science 76.32
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology Mathematics 91.35
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology Science 89.83

Indeed it is interesting, although to be fair, you don't want to simply compare TJ to itself but compare TJs' slide to the slides of other schools. If you look at McLean's pass rates now, for example, they aren't what you'd expect for a top pyramid school. I had to recheck the data to make sure it wasn't an error.

While the county as a whole suffered losses, some schools didnt suffer as much as TJ in Math and Science where pass advance rates were essentially cut by 50% while a school like woodson was cut by 25% or even less when considering science. This wasnt the case for all schools though.

2018-2019 - Woodson High Mathematics - 28.71
2018-2019 - Woodson High Science - 32.97

2022-2023 - Woodson High Mathematics - 20.96
2022-2023 - Woodson High Science - 27.55

All that to say that a school like TJ would seem to be more likely to resist losses better than regular schools not worse.

Also interesting was, and this isnt scientific, but looking at the year over year, TJs pass advanced rate continues to drop from 2019 to current vs other schools who dropped in 2020 and then shot back up.

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Anonymous wrote:SOLs are not hard enough to use as a proof of TJ’s lack of decline.

What do you mean? I'm not a TJ booster but tell me that this is not meaningful:

Ranking by PASS ADVANCED RATE

Math

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 53.13
2 Langley High 26.05
3 Madison High 24.53
4 Chantilly High 23.66
5 Woodson High 21.05
6 Lake Braddock Secondary 19.74
7 McLean High 18.58
8 Oakton High 17.01
9 Centreville High 14.04
10 Robinson Secondary 13.58

English

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 93.62
2 Langley High 58.82
3 Madison High 51.15
4 Oakton High 50.83
5 McLean High 50.78
6 Woodson High 47.51
7 West Springfield High 44.84
8 Chantilly High 44.21
9 Marshall High 43.4
10 South Lakes High 38.7

Science

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 57.63 Science
2 Marshall High 31.36
3 Oakton High 30.01
4 Langley High 29.1
5 Woodson High 27.55
6 McLean High 25.67
7 West Springfield High 24.19
8 Chantilly High 22.96
9 Centreville High 17.46
10 Madison High 16.45


And ranking by PASS RATE

Math

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 99.04
2 Woodson High 92.63
3 Langley High 92.53
4 West Springfield High 92.34
5 Madison High 91.51
6 Oakton High 90.53
7 Marshall High 89.92
8 McLean High 87.17
9 Robinson Secondary 86.03
10 Lake Braddock Secondary 85.52

English

1 Langley High 98.82
2 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 98.41
3 West Springfield High 96.56
4 Woodson High 95.83
5 McLean High 95.67
6 Marshall High 95.4
7 Oakton High 94.44
8 Madison High 93.7
9 Centreville High 93.29
10 Chantilly High 92.85

Science

1 Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology 100
2 Langley High 95.26
3 Woodson High 90.96
4 Oakton High 90.69
5 West Springfield High 90.48
6 McLean High 86.88
7 Marshall High 85.55
8 Chantilly High 85.46
9 Madison High 85.37
10 Robinson Secondary 84.5

Interesting to see the Pass Advanced Rate results for TJ from before Covid:

2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology English:Reading 59.14
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology English:Writing 96.61
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology History and Social Science 76.32
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology Mathematics 91.35
2018-2019 - Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology Science 89.83

Indeed it is interesting, although to be fair, you don't want to simply compare TJ to itself but compare TJs' slide to the slides of other schools. If you look at McLean's pass rates now, for example, they aren't what you'd expect for a top pyramid school. I had to recheck the data to make sure it wasn't an error.

While the county as a whole suffered losses, some schools didnt suffer as much as TJ in Math and Science where pass advance rates were essentially cut by 50% while a school like woodson was cut by 25% or even less when considering science. This wasnt the case for all schools though.

2018-2019 - Woodson High Mathematics - 28.71
2018-2019 - Woodson High Science - 32.97

2022-2023 - Woodson High Mathematics - 20.96
2022-2023 - Woodson High Science - 27.55

All that to say that a school like TJ would seem to be more likely to resist losses better than regular schools not worse.

Also interesting was, and this isnt scientific, but looking at the year over year, TJs pass advanced rate continues to drop from 2019 to current vs other schools who dropped in 2020 and then shot back up.

I posted on this above. It's true some dropped more or less than others but TJ isn't alone in dropping as much as it did (and, conversely, in increasing its English reading pass advanced rate). McLean dropped in math and science by 41% and 34%, respectively, while TJ did at 42% and 36%. Madison and Langley barely dropped in math.

Why attribute it to the schools though? What matters is what happened when schools weren't doing their job. I suspect this is much less likely to be about TJ (or McLean) than about how families in particular demographics addressed their kids' learning needs during and post pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Looks like FCPS is achieving “equity” with scores dropping consistently across the board in math and science.

[Anonymous]

What are the scores for Justice, Mt. Vernon, Lewis and Annandale.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like FCPS is achieving “equity” with scores dropping consistently across the board in math and science.

Or, even FCPS is not immune to learning loss. The pandemic happened and we can see the results, even at McLean, even at TJ. At every high school.

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Anonymous wrote:It is infuriating OP. I cannot for the life of me understand why this is so hard for them. I can't help but think the results dismal and they want time to pass so people forget about it.

These scores absolutely matter. They are an indicator of the competency of the school administration, a measure of the academic level the students are at, and indicator of teacher strength. These are all important factors if one is moving to FCPS to see which are school is the best for their kid.

These scores do not matter. There are kids who don’t speak English being forced to take these tests. It only matters how your kid does.

Except that the state sets teachers up by giving teachers little indication of what will be on the test. The sample test questions teachers are given to help kids prepare are from 2015.

Why should teachers be given the opportunity to prep the kids? This is supposed to test what they are actually learning in school.

Tell me you don't know how tests work without telling me you don't know how tests work.

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Anonymous wrote:Rumors of the decline of TJ have been greatly exaggerated...

Top 10 in English (using pass rate as the criterion; the rankings change when you use pass advanced as the criterion, which is arguable a more sensitive measure):

Langley High (pass advanced: 59%
Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology (pass advanced: 94%!)
West Springfield High
Woodson High
McLean High
Marshall High
Oakton High
Madison High
Centreville High
Chantilly High

Top 10 in Math:

Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology
Langley High
Woodson High
West Springfield High
Madison High
Oakton High
Marshall High
McLean High
Robinson Secondary
Lake Braddock Secondary

Top ten in science:

Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology
Langley High
Woodson High
West Springfield High
Oakton High
McLean High
Chantilly High
Madison High
Marshall High

I don’t have a kid there and don’t care if it’s declining, but please don’t use SOL scores to measure rigor in a HS. They are a basic competency test and most high schoolers don’t even take them. For example, students only take 1 math SOL in HS.