2017-2018 PARCC results

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Anonymous wrote:Top charters for grades 3-8 in Math and ELA via https://www.dcpcsb.org/evaluating/parcc

ELA (% proficient + advanced)

BASIS MS 72.1 (5-8th)
Washington Latin MS 65.5 (5-8th)
LAMB 59.7 (3-5)
YY 59 (3-5)
ITS 576 (3-8th)
DCI 57 (6-8th)
DC Prep 51.5
KIPP Lead 49.2 (3-5)
KIPP Promise 48.1 (3-5)
KIPP Heights 46.9 (3-5)

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Wow ITS!

Go look at the results and consider economically disadvantaged. Comparing ITS to most of the other schools on this list is insulting. The numbers for ITS should be much higher. They have a student body that mimics Ross - and perform much lower.

As noted above, older kids at ITS don’t have the same demographics as pk3-K. The middle school is very small and nearly 100% minority. My child’s 3rd grade class (probably 70-75% minority) looks very similar to 3rd grade at his cousin’s class at LAMB and god brother at YY and the grades performed the same if not better. So I’m not sure why you wouldn’t show them on the same list as YY or LAMB.

Interesting to see the scores of similar charters by grade level. I do agree it’s not a fair comparison to measure a pk3-8 to pk3-5.

Average math and ela

3rd
ITS 67%
YY 55%
CMI 52.5%
MV 45.5%
LAMB 44.5%
Lee 27%

4th
ITS 62.5%
YY 47%
CMI 47%
LAMB 44%
MV 43.5%

5th
YY 70%
LAMB 62.5%
ITS 50%
MV 50%
CMI 21%

NP adding other charters talked about here by grade. I am pleasantly surprised that it appears many schools tend to go higher by 5th. I would have thought the opposite.

Average math and ela

3rd
ITS 67%
YY 55%
CMI 52.5%
Stokes 48.5%
MV 45.5%
LAMB 44.5%
DCB 33%
Haynes 30%
TR 29%
Cap City 27%
Lee 27%

4th
ITS 62.5%
Haynes 49%
YY 47%
CMI 47%
LAMB 44%
MV 43.5%
TR 40%
Stokes 38%
Cap City 34%
DCB 28.5%

5th
YY 70%
LAMB 62.5%
TR 57%
ITS 50%
MV 50%
DCB 47.5%
Haynes 36.5%
Stokes 33%
Cap City 27.5%
CMI 21%

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Speaking of Charters, kudos to the schools on this list!

Most Improved Public Charter Schools

These public charter schools, whose students live in every Ward of the city, achieved at least twice the state average of improvement in both ELA and Math:

Harmony
Basis
Friendship Woodridge
Inspired Teaching
KIPP Lead
KIPP Will
Cesar Chavez Prep
Friendship Tech
Thurgood Marshall

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As a ward 8 resident, I want to say congratulations to the students, staff, and parents at Ketcham! Rumor over here is the Ketcham is getting better and better and this proves it. They worked hard and I'm happy for them.

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Big improvement at Marie Reed - now 50% 4+ in ELA and 47% 4+ in Math

And more growth at Bancroft

34 ELA (+7 from 2017) / 40 Math (+12 from 2017)

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Anonymous wrote:So where is the achievement gap below 40 or 50%?

At Oyster-Adams, the black/white achievement gap in ELA is 12%; however it’s 32% in math.

There is essentially no black/white achievement gap at Ross: 4% in ELA and 0% in Math. DCPS needs to bottle and replicate whatever is going on at Ross!

I wonder—are the black kids at Ross high SES or something? Since we know a lot of this boils down to SES differences?

Probably, but aren’t most of the black kids at Janney, Key, Mann, Murch, etc...also high SES? Those schools all have much larger achievement gaps than Ross.

No. I have 3 kids at Janney. The black kid population is probably only 25% middle to high SES (and some of this 25% is black kids adopted by white neighborhood families). The rest (75%) of the black kids are out of boundary
and lower (to very low) SES. And because it's Janney the the gulf between high and low is HUGE. To buy in AU Park now you have to afford 1.2 million+. The families in the younger grades are all really wealthy--they're no longer even dual feds, they're law partners.
The economic gulf between them and the black kids coming from across the park is massive.

How do you know all the black kid’s SES? Sounds like a lot of prejudging. I have a lot of black friends OOB at Janney. My son’s best friend is black rising 5th. All of his black peers that come to his birthday party come from two HHI families with great jobs. Live in Shepherd Park, Crestwood, 16th St Heights.

There were 736 students at Janney last year. Putting aside race, only 22 students in the entire school were economically disadvantaged, and fewer than 10 students were at risk.

There were ~184 non-white students at Janney. Most of them are not poor.

There is racial bias in education -- because there is racial bias in our society. Period.

If you think "racial bias in education" is the reason for the ABYSMAL average PARCC scores of DC's black kids, you are an enabler and part of the problem.

NP. Racial bias in education does exist, whether or not you want to acknowledge it. It may not be the only reason for the achievement gap, but it's a significant issue in schools across the country. Your refusal to recognize that makes YOU part of the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:So where is the achievement gap below 40 or 50%?

At Oyster-Adams, the black/white achievement gap in ELA is 12%; however it’s 32% in math.

There is essentially no black/white achievement gap at Ross: 4% in ELA and 0% in Math. DCPS needs to bottle and replicate whatever is going on at Ross!

I wonder—are the black kids at Ross high SES or something? Since we know a lot of this boils down to SES differences?

Answer is yes. 18% AA, 18% Hispanic Latino, 12% Economically disadvantaged, and of note 3% special needs. Do they counsel these kids out? Ross is the new Key in a boundary economic advantage standpoint.

Ross' minority kids are mostly well off and not special needs. They can't report at-risk or special education. Still, closing the gap as they have -- even w/in similar SES demographics -- and especially in the context of producing very high scores ) so not closing the gap because they dragged down the best performers), is INCREDIBLY impressive.

That said, L-T's turn around is amazing. Despite what an early poster said about richer/whiter =ing better test scores (obviously true), L-T's scores have shot up despite the fact that they still have large non-white/non-rich populations. L-T was still Title I last year. It can report at-risk and special education scores. It is richer and whiter than it was, yes... but it's still not that white or that rich and it's scores are climbing. In fact, it's white kids scores are on par with JKLM by and large. The fact that over 50% of AT RISK students tested 4s or 5s in English is especially notable and a real achievement. Is there any other DCPS that can boast that?

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Anonymous wrote:So where is the achievement gap below 40 or 50%?

At Oyster-Adams, the black/white achievement gap in ELA is 12%; however it’s 32% in math.

There is essentially no black/white achievement gap at Ross: 4% in ELA and 0% in Math. DCPS needs to bottle and replicate whatever is going on at Ross!

I wonder—are the black kids at Ross high SES or something? Since we know a lot of this boils down to SES differences?

Answer is yes. 18% AA, 18% Hispanic Latino, 12% Economically disadvantaged, and of note 3% special needs. Do they counsel these kids out? Ross is the new Key in a boundary economic advantage standpoint.

Ross' minority kids are mostly well off and not special needs. They can't report at-risk or special education. Still, closing the gap as they have -- even w/in similar SES demographics -- and especially in the context of producing very high scores ) so not closing the gap because they dragged down the best performers), is INCREDIBLY impressive.

That said, L-T's turn around is amazing. Despite what an early poster said about richer/whiter =ing better test scores (obviously true), L-T's scores have shot up despite the fact that they still have large non-white/non-rich populations. L-T was still Title I last year. It can report at-risk and special education scores. It is richer and whiter than it was, yes... but it's still not that white or that rich and it's scores are climbing. In fact, it's white kids scores are on par with JKLM by and large. The fact that over 50% of AT RISK students tested 4s or 5s in English is especially notable and a real achievement. Is there any other DCPS that can boast that?

+1. My favorite thing about this time of year is seeing new up and comers or other schools doing great. It shouldn’t be a competition. If all schools do well, we all go well. Congrats to Ketchum, Marie Reed, LT and others!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So where is the achievement gap below 40 or 50%?

At Oyster-Adams, the black/white achievement gap in ELA is 12%; however it’s 32% in math.

There is essentially no black/white achievement gap at Ross: 4% in ELA and 0% in Math. DCPS needs to bottle and replicate whatever is going on at Ross!

I wonder—are the black kids at Ross high SES or something? Since we know a lot of this boils down to SES differences?

Answer is yes. 18% AA, 18% Hispanic Latino, 12% Economically disadvantaged, and of note 3% special needs. Do they counsel these kids out? Ross is the new Key in a boundary economic advantage standpoint.

Ross' minority kids are mostly well off and not special needs. They can't report at-risk or special education. Still, closing the gap as they have -- even w/in similar SES demographics -- and especially in the context of producing very high scores ) so not closing the gap because they dragged down the best performers), is INCREDIBLY impressive.

That said, L-T's turn around is amazing. Despite what an early poster said about richer/whiter =ing better test scores (obviously true), L-T's scores have shot up despite the fact that they still have large non-white/non-rich populations. L-T was still Title I last year. It can report at-risk and special education scores. It is richer and whiter than it was, yes... but it's still not that white or that rich and it's scores are climbing. In fact, it's white kids scores are on par with JKLM by and large. The fact that over 50% of AT RISK students tested 4s or 5s in English is especially notable and a real achievement. Is there any other DCPS that can boast that?

+1. My favorite thing about this time of year is seeing new up and comers or other schools doing great. It shouldn’t be a competition. If all schools do well, we all go well. Congrats to Ketchum, Marie Reed, LT and others!

+1. I particularly love seeing new neighborhood schools do well. I understand and respect the need for charters, but wouldn't it be great if charters actually just filled niche roles (parents who really want immersion, Montessori or whatever) and weren't escape hatches as well?

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Anonymous wrote:As a longtime property owner IB for Murch, I note that its relative position in the ranking order of "general schoolwide achievement" has .... unequivocally tanked. Relative to its extremely similar upper NW siblings; to schools like eaton and stoddert that also have a ton of rental apartments inbounds like Murch does (thereby allowing for an enrollment of somewhat less affluent students and ESL embassy kids); relative to the "rowhouse Riviera" from Dupont to Cap Hill -- where the housing style/yard size may differ, but the parents' jobs and education levels are the same as they are in Ward3.

If I had kids at Murch or headed there, I'd want some answers about its plummet over the past 10 years, in this imperfect but useful metric. It's undeniable. What's going on? The trend transcends principals, renovation, etc

Yes, if your only concern is PARCC scores then you should be concerned. Many people (myself included) have multiple kids in DCPS and could care less about PARCC scores. They really tell you nothing. It is sad to see people put so much emphasis on PARCC scores which happen over a few days a year rather than the entire school year. Do you think that people who are happy with their non great scoring PARCC school (us) are so focused on PARCC scores? No we love the school and the community and how happy the kids are and the great admins and the wonderful teachers and the great education the kids are receiving. I am sure it is the same at Murch.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So where is the achievement gap below 40 or 50%?

At Oyster-Adams, the black/white achievement gap in ELA is 12%; however it’s 32% in math.

There is essentially no black/white achievement gap at Ross: 4% in ELA and 0% in Math. DCPS needs to bottle and replicate whatever is going on at Ross!

I wonder—are the black kids at Ross high SES or something? Since we know a lot of this boils down to SES differences?

Probably, but aren’t most of the black kids at Janney, Key, Mann, Murch, etc...also high SES? Those schools all have much larger achievement gaps than Ross.

No. I have 3 kids at Janney. The black kid population is probably only 25% middle to high SES (and some of this 25% is black kids adopted by white neighborhood families). The rest (75%) of the black kids are out of boundary
and lower (to very low) SES. And because it's Janney the the gulf between high and low is HUGE. To buy in AU Park now you have to afford 1.2 million+. The families in the younger grades are all really wealthy--they're no longer even dual feds, they're law partners.
The economic gulf between them and the black kids coming from across the park is massive.

How do you know all the black kid’s SES? Sounds like a lot of prejudging. I have a lot of black friends OOB at Janney. My son’s best friend is black rising 5th. All of his black peers that come to his birthday party come from two HHI families with great jobs. Live in Shepherd Park, Crestwood, 16th St Heights.

There were 736 students at Janney last year. Putting aside race, only 22 students in the entire school were economically disadvantaged, and fewer than 10 students were at risk.

There were ~184 non-white students at Janney. Most of them are not poor.

There is racial bias in education -- because there is racial bias in our society. Period.

If you think "racial bias in education" is the reason for the ABYSMAL average PARCC scores of DC's black kids, you are an enabler and part of the problem.

NP. Racial bias in education does exist, whether or not you want to acknowledge it. It may not be the only reason for the achievement gap, but it's a significant issue in schools across the country. Your refusal to recognize that makes YOU part of the problem.

Until we start recognizing the very real problems poor black children face in this city and actually doing something about it, we are still going to see this kind of total failure in their education. Sure, racial bias exists, but these kids are failing because they’re hungry, they’re plopped in front of a TV all day long, their parents either can’t or don’t prioritize education and enrichment, they’re in unsafe environments etc.

-NP

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No educated opinions on why Murch can't keep it together? The answer can't be that it has a couple self-contained classrooms -- it always has. This isn't a new factor that explains persistent, relatively poor performance

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That said, L-T's turn around is amazing. Despite what an early poster said about richer/whiter =ing better test scores (obviously true), L-T's scores have shot up despite the fact that they still have large non-white/non-rich populations. L-T was still Title I last year. It can report at-risk and special education scores. It is richer and whiter than it was, yes... but it's still not that white or that rich and it's scores are climbing. In fact, it's white kids scores are on par with JKLM by and large. The fact that over 50% of AT RISK students tested 4s or 5s in English is especially notable and a real achievement. Is there any other DCPS that can boast that?

DCPS Schools with significant numbers of at-risk students scoring 4+

Hyde Addison: 57% of at-risk students 4+ in ELA; 53% in math (11.5% at risk school wide, not necessarily in testing grade)

Eaton: 42%/42% (5% at risk percentage at school)

Ketchum: 20%/46% (81% at-risk)

Deal: 35%/22% (6% at risk)

Banneker: 88%/59% (19% at risk)

Shepherd: 22%/48% (13% at risk)

Hearst: 40%/40% (6% at risk)

HD Cooke: 26%/43% (43% at risk)

Marie Reed: 40/32 (31% at risk)

Maury: 41/36 (7% at risk)

McKinley Tech: 79/13 (35% at risk)

Oyster Adams 41/33 (10% at risk)

SWW HS 69/36 (10% at risk)

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Anonymous wrote:No educated opinions on why Murch can't keep it together? The answer can't be that it has a couple self-contained classrooms -- it always has. This isn't a new factor that explains persistent, relatively poor performance

The at-risk percentage is much higher at Murch. The percentage of at-risk students is so small at most of its neighbor schools it isn't even tracked.

Murch 14%
Janney (not tracked)
Lafayette 3.3%
Mann (not tracked)
Hearst 6%
Key not tracked
Eaton 6%
Shepherd 13%
Oyster Adams 10%

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Anonymous wrote:No educated opinions on why Murch can't keep it together? The answer can't be that it has a couple self-contained classrooms -- it always has. This isn't a new factor that explains persistent, relatively poor performance

Definitely need to keep your kids out of Murch. Terrible school, just terrible.

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That said, L-T's turn around is amazing. Despite what an early poster said about richer/whiter =ing better test scores (obviously true), L-T's scores have shot up despite the fact that they still have large non-white/non-rich populations. L-T was still Title I last year. It can report at-risk and special education scores. It is richer and whiter than it was, yes... but it's still not that white or that rich and it's scores are climbing. In fact, it's white kids scores are on par with JKLM by and large. The fact that over 50% of AT RISK students tested 4s or 5s in English is especially notable and a real achievement. Is there any other DCPS that can boast that?

DCPS Schools with significant numbers of at-risk students scoring 4+

Hyde Addison: 57% of at-risk students 4+ in ELA; 53% in math (11.5% at risk school wide, not necessarily in testing grade)

Eaton: 42%/42% (5% at risk percentage at school)

Ketchum: 20%/46% (81% at-risk)

Deal: 35%/22% (6% at risk)

Banneker: 88%/59% (19% at risk)

Shepherd: 22%/48% (13% at risk)

Hearst: 40%/40% (6% at risk)

HD Cooke: 26%/43% (43% at risk)

Marie Reed: 40/32 (31% at risk)

Maury: 41/36 (7% at risk)

McKinley Tech: 79/13 (35% at risk)

Oyster Adams 41/33 (10% at risk)

SWW HS 69/36 (10% at risk)

Go Ketchum!!