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[quote=Anonymous]There are not "hidden" schools where the kids start high and stay high, because that is largely demographically driven and those are the non-T1 schools in the city. For awhile, schools like L-T and Marie Reed and Bancroft fell into the quasi hidden category b/c they were rapidly gentrifying and so test scores didn't reflect the full school population/subcatagories that would have shown promise couldn't be reported. Those days are over. Maybe Payne is the closest thing right now? But it's not like there aren't DCUMers on that bandwaggon already. The charters that fall into this bucket are also the ones you always hear about and, honestly, most charters have bad-for-demographics test scores, in part because they're focusing on some other mission that may detract from standardized testing in various ways (immersion, Montessori, etc).

The "those getting better-than-expected results" question is way more interesting and also where DCUM has way more of a blindspot, especially if the school doesn't have a solid chunk of UMC kids.[/quote]

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