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[quote=Anonymous]How old is your child, OP? At some schools, due to gentrification, the scores for K-2nd are much better than the PARCC scores would have you think.  Some perfectly lovely elementary schools lose high-performing students in 4th and 5th because of lack of a good middle school.  So you really need to do detailed research.  PARCC is only English and Math so if you care about science or social studies or arts, it will not help you.  PARCC score summaries include special needs, even students with really high level IEPs, so that can bring down scores if a school has a lot of those students.  Be sure to check the detailed test score data on the OSSE website to control for that.  Also some schools are so small, their testing populations are not statistically significant and scores can swing a lot from year to year.

Also PARCC is not a very good test and only a few states use it anymore.  I would not be surprised if the company that operates it pulls the plug in a few years.[/quote]

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