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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kindergartener just got off the WL for Hyde-Addison, and we did a tour this morning. Seems nice enough; will probably be better once the construction is complete. Test scores seem to be slightly below Ross and Eaton, maybe on par with or slightly higher than Stoddert. Should we be concerned that it's 60% OOB? Does anyone have some insight into the school? Thanks.[/quote]

Ross actually has the highest test scores in the city. Higher than Janney, Lafayette and Mann.[/quote]

This is, at best, marginally true.

For the last two years, of Janney, Mann and Ross, Ross had the highest percentage of (Proficient or Advanced) in reading. Before the last two years, Mann had higher percentages than the others. In math, Mann has been and remains the highest percentage of (Proficient or Advanced).

I'm not trying to denigrate Ross at all. It appears to be a very good school. (I don't know anything about it personally.) But you made a quantitative statement and quantitative statements need to be based entirely on the data. [/quote]

And Janney has the highest (or tied) percentage of advanced in both reading and math, is marginally below Ross and Mann on the combination proficient and advanced in math (89 (J) v 92 (R) and 94 (M)) and is tied with Mann for the highest in combination reading scores (91(J) v. 90 (R) and 91(M)).  They are all different sized schools  (693 students (J)  v. 302 (M) and 166 (R)) with different demographics.  Test scores fluctuate year over year and the same parents that worry about the test scores of a school also do not want a school that "teaches to the test" so I find this all hard to quantify in a rational way to determine exactly which is the "best" or whether it matters at this level.  I am willing to assert that they all are great schools.

Getting back to Hyde.  My DCs do not go but many families at my children's preschool (which was/is in that neighborhood) sent their children and were very happy.  My children are at a JKLM that is our IB school and I would not hesitate to send my children to Hyde.[/quote]

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