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[quote=Anonymous]Schools use things like MAP, I ready, DIBELS, and other evaluation tools. As well as teacher evaluations of a student's classwork. There are lots of ways to compare your student to grade level standards.

I dislike CAPE because the results are given to parents so late. It can be 6 months, well into the next school year after an April test. Some schools are so small that the data is noisy and some of it is suppressed for privacy. Also, after this year DC will be using a different test altogether, no more CAPE.

To compare schools I would look at the curriculum and see if I have strong opinions about it. There is no CAPE for social studies, the arts, and world languages, for example, so CAPE isn't helpful there. Evaluating math CAPE scores in middle school requires a separate spreadsheet and some background understanding of how test score reporting works. Also, because some schools have a good feeder pattern and others don't, people who care about that will consider it when choosing a school.

If you look at DC School Report Card, they have lots of data on things like student retention, that relate to school quality. Only you can decide what factors matter to your family. But that is what I would look at.[/quote]

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