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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just the PARCC scores that matter, it's the median growth percentile. A school where kids come in at a 4 and stay at a 4 is fine, but a school where kids come in at a 1 and grow to a 4 is a "better" school in my view. It's just not that hard to teach most high-income kids, keeping them on grade level with lots of parental support is not a major pedagogical achievement. You may also like to look at retention as a metric of parent satisfaction.

You can see all kinds of data here: https://osse.dc.gov/dcschoolreportcard/schoolsnapshot

Charter schools have site reviews: https://dcpcsb.org/qualitative-site-reviews
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OP here. Those qualitative site reviews are great, thank you. Those school snapshots show very little.

How can I find the median growth percentile? I'd be really interested in that data but I don't see it anywhere. [/quote]

The snapshots show you something important, which is retention. The lottery gets a lot easier going into K and beyond, so schools that retain their preschoolers into K and 1st are likely to be quality schools. There aren't standardized test scores for those grades, so retention is an important metric. I'm not sure that median growth percentiles are published anymore, but here's an old example: https://dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0309/student-growth

I'd really caution you against making too much of this data. I know it's fun, but really, try to not over-interpret it. People can opt their kids out of the PARCC test, many schools have small test-taking populations, DC is a pretty mobile city so kids tend to move from school to school, and what you're looking at is a test administered exactly a year ago so a lot of the students taking that test have graduated already. A lot of DCPS schools are changing/gentrifying fast and test scores can change year to year just based on who happens to enroll.

Be aware that a re-boundarying process is underway.[/quote]

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