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[quote=Anonymous]Lots of recent posts with people posting overall CAPE meeting/exceeding percentages to compare schools, particularly at the high school level. Lots of replies explaining why that's often not an apples-to-apples comparison (i.e., students who take HS level math in MS typically complete all math CAPE testing prior to 10th grade). Here's the actual data.

Looking at math meeting/exceeding percent and the ratio of math CAPE to ELA CAPE test takers:

Bard overall: 2%, 80%

BASIS overall: 72%, 101%

Banneker overall: 53%, 96%

DCI overall: 12%, 93%

DE overall: 15%, 86%

J-R overall: 30%, 71%

McKinley overall: 22%, 87%

SWW overall: 68%, 60%

Latin overall: 26%, 61%

For all other schools the ratio of math CAPE to ELA CAPE test takers is 85% or higher.

J-R, SWW, and Latin are clear outliers here. Where BASIS is testing all of its students in math, these three schools are only testing a (arguably weaker) subset of students in math. Same data by grade:

BASIS 9th: 51%, 100%
BASIS 10th: 89%, 100%

J-R 9th: 40%, 95%
J-R 10th: 11%, 44%

SWW 9th: 77%, 91%
SWW 10th: 41%, 29%

Latin 9th: 30%, 99%
Latin 10th: &lt;=10%, 18%

Tl;dr - Overall CAPE scores are not always sufficient for comparing HS math performance. Take a closer look.[/quote]

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