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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really.

The typical BASIS student takes algebra and geometry in 7th and 8th, precalculus in 9th, and calculus in 10th (some take a more advanced math curriculum).  Other schools such as Walls don't do geometry until 9th.  Seems like these students get the benefit of being test of material that they are currently studying while BASIS students are tested on material that they started learning two or three years before and probably barely remember.

OP seems to assume that in 10th grade J-R, Walls, and Latin are "arguably" testing a "weaker subset."  But what is the evidence for that?  Seems just as likely that they are not testing some the weakest math students, especially those with tons of absences.  One in four kids in DCPS are chronically absent from school.

As PP says, maybe it is best to look at average SAT scores (noting, of course, that Walls' numbers include some former BASIS middle school students).

The schools rank like this:

BASIS 660
Walls 652
Latin 580
Banneker 555
J-R 508
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The weaker students are taking the CAPE in 10th grade because those are the students taking Geometry in the 10th grade.  So yes those are generally the weakest math students.  This isn’t a choice for DCPS schools.  It is how the district dictates that schools do it- at Walls very few 10th graders test because very few are in Geometry.  The rest are in Algebra II, Precalc and Calculus.[/quote]

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