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[quote=Anonymous]DD is at a borderline Title 1 MCPS ES. We have actually been happy with her time there so far - and so has DD - but I will also admit that it's possible I don't know what we're missing. How do you compare needier schools to "higher performing" (i.e. lower FARM rate) schools at the ES level?

For point of reference this is what our experience was...is this below what other middle class families are seeing from their experiences in schools with lower FARM rates? Trying to figure out how to compare based on what DD is actually experiencing vs. the school's overall test scores that are driven by other things. To date disruptiveness has not been an issue in DD's classes and most classmates do speak English.

- By end of 1st grade DD was on J and at least a handful of others in her class were around there or just under. Believe a few kids in other class are higher than that from talking with a neighbor. (Norm though is that most kids are closer to grade level at end of 1st.)

- DD did a weekly HW journal 1 night a week of X sentences (started at like 4 and went up to 11) on any topic. Teacher would correct word wall words and other persistent misspellings but no where near all the mistakes. There did not appear to me to be teaching of spelling rules - mostly reliant on words of the week (5 at a time) to install spelling improvements.

- For math by the end they had worked on double digit adding/subtracting - the grouping of numbers into 10s groups and dealing with the remainders. They practiced Math Facts, but DD was encouraged to work on them over the summer so I don't think it was expected that all knew their Math Facts cold by end of the year. DD could be pushed more in math, but I gather from DCUM that this is a county-wide problem perhaps not a school-specific one?

Honestly trying to see if it's possible to figure out whether the school is a nice place but not keeping pace with other ESs with different SES make-ups. Or if this is on par with elsewhere that's not Title 1/Focus. This is as we contemplate a move due to MS/HS concerns, so not just comparisons for the sake of being competitive. [/quote]

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