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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"It is based off achievement gap between esol and everyone else.

So even if 93% of your student body is scoring in the top 90-95% of the state, and your esol population of 7% is scoring above the state average, but say in the 70th percentile, it drops your entire school rating down significantly.

HOWEVER, if you have a school population that is mostly homogenous, all upper class with no measurable ESOL or at risk population, like Langley pyramid schools, you get full credit for no rating of at risk populations and the rating stays high.

So basically, the new scoring calculation significantly penalizes high performing schools with at risk/esol students of about 5-10% of the total school population because of the achievement gap, and rewards schools that have no measurable esol or at risk population because they have no achievement gap. The schools with a greater esol population seem to be ranking about the same as they always have.

It is a flawed methodology."

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Our schools both dropped from 8s to 5 and 6 from one year to the next - same test scores for the bulk of the student body that's MC; but now the school is penalized for having a majority MC / slightly mixed SES student body effectively. [/quote]

This. Most of northern VA is upper middle class with pockets of very poor students. Those schools that have poor students will see their scores lowered a lot. Mine went from an 8 to a 5 in a year. Neighbors took much longer to sell their house last spring and the #1 thing people said was that the schools were why they couldn't put in an offer. [/quote]

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