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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a popular school district with embassy, World Bank, and IMF workers so not as many native English speakers compared to some other W schools.[/quote]
LOL.. Whitman ESOL rate &lt; 5%, average ELA 2.5.  RMHS ESOL rate about 9%, average ELA score of 3.2.

You are saying the tiny % of ESOL students at Whitman are dragging down the ELA score at Whitman  more than the much bigger (and poorer) ESOL students at RM?[/quote]

yes

See 9:12.  In my former job, one of the supervisors shared ESSA's calculation methods.[b]  I am not a math person[/b], but the dumbed down version illustrated the concept of how the "few" can affect the whole.

I personally think ESSA will change or even go - like PARCC, but there's a tiny part of me that likes watching some of these schools suffer. You don't change until you feel some pain.  Challenging schools have been punished enough.  It's time to level the playing field.[/quote]
Clearly.  But common sense should tell you that a school with a *MUCH* higher % of ESOL and FARMS student will drag down the scores MUCH more than a school with a tiny % of said population.  Yet, Whitman has an ELA score of 2.5, while RM has a score of 3.2.  Something is wrong at Whitman if their ELA score is *that* low compared to a high FARM/ESOL school  like RM.[/quote]

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