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[quote=Anonymous]I posted my longer post in the thread that got locked, so just pasting it below:

LT is great. When we bought IB not quite 2 years ago, it had an 8 on GS and 4 stars (close to 5) on OSSE. The decrease on both measures is because test scores declined slightly two years ago (the last time PARCC occured) having increased astronomically for the 4 years prior. If the crazy test increase from 3 years ago had been split evenly over 2 years and the kids had ended up in the same place, it would still be a 8/4; because they jumped way up and then fell slightly back, it had a crazily out of whack impact on the growth metric.

(If you pull the last 5 years of test scores, you will see this is all true; 3 years ago they had *crazy* good results -- like outperformed every other school on the Hill if you compared across subcategories and actually outperformed Brent in ELA straight up as a T1 school v. 80%+ white UMC. Then-Principal Smith flat out admitted they outperformed their iready predictions that year and then slightly underperformed the next year and the result was bizarre catastrophic for the OSSE scores, which fed into the GS scores. There are also a bunch of threads explaining this at the time if you search this forum.)

Anyway, my older two kids are at L-T and we are very happy. I posted something like this on here two years ago -- again, you can probably find it if you search -- and was told to go for it and I'm so pleased I did. I really like the school community & my kids have had great teachers. My kids have made friends -- even w/ kids in their class during COVID thanks to playground meet ups and outdoor masked playdates -- and the teachers have gone above and beyond to support learning (e.g., ECE teacher did a pull out group for kids that were reading/on their way to supplement the focus on learning letters/letter sounds appropriate for most of the class; in no way is small groups for ECErs a DCPS or even school expectation, the teacher just did it).

The school will have more than 50% of kids back in person for T4 and both of my kids will be there (one already is).

If you have any specific questions, I'm happy to answer them.

ETA: Here's my thread from two years ago that I referenced above: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/802945.page#14992730.[/quote]

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