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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The scores are online with other charters and a lot of dcps middle schools. But there are a lot of dcps middle schools that do better too.  Not sure of the why's and how's .

And there are a lot more families planning to stay through middle school than there were even 3-4 years ago.  The competition for schools private and public has grown a lot which is part of the reason for people staying.

We like the school and feel it is educating our child well.  [b]But, if you want a school with top preforming score for low income students then it is not currently that school.[/b]  It is and does a lot of really good things for all different types of students. Just depends on what you and your student need.[/quote]

Thanks to all who provided information. However, two posters have suggested that if I'm concerned about the at-risk disparity, I should look at schools where at-risk kids do well on standardized tests (like KIPP). I've been thinking about this differently--I think that looking at how at-risk students are doing might be a good way to gauge a school's overall quality. Kids from high income, high education families will do well everywhere, and ITDS has a significant proportion of these kinds of kids (and hence, higher test scores, overall). So I think that looking at at-risk kids across schools might be a good way to tell how well the school is educating its students--although, unfortunately, all we know about them is their PARCC scores, with all the caveats of interpreting standardized test scores.[/quote]

I don't disagree, but many schools have too few at-risk kids for meaningful statistics.  Also, the at-risk category in DC is so widely defined that there is a lot of variation within it.  What many schools do is try to [b]select only the higher-performing and better-behaved at-risk kids[/b].  It just isn't the same as what neighborhood schools have to deal with, taking everyone in their boundary.[/quote]

How do they select them, at least at the elementary level? Or do you mean select them for PARCC testing? (I don't think the latter is true, because the participation rates of at-risk kids are reported for each school and are about 95% for every school I looked at.) And if it's the charter schools that are "selecting", shouldn't these higher-performing at-risk kids be doing better on PARCC than the neighborhood schools?[/quote]

They select them by selective recruiting, and by making life difficult for kids and parents they wish would leave.  Suspensions, threatening to make the kid repeat a grade (very little basis for that as a successful educational strategy), a zillion meetings that make life difficult for parents, "We just can't meet his needs" euphemisms, etc.  I think both charter and neighborhood schools engage in this.[/quote]

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