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I'm not sure what you're taking issue with here. HES also has a LEP percentage of 21.9% (students with limited to no ability to understand, speak, read, or write English) and a FARMS rate of 76.8% (children who are eligible for free/reduced price meals). HES has a Great Schools rating of 2, a score which is largely based on overall test scores. What do you attribute the Great Schools rating to? Or, really, what would you prefer others to attribute it to?

HES is also much loved by people who have other (good) options and it's a locus of community pride.[/quote]

There are other ES in the county with similar stats that have much higher Great Schools ratings so although those issues may contribute to low test scores there must be something else going on at the school.  Spellman has a FARMS rate of 82.5% and a LEP percentage of 25.2% and they are rated a 6 on Great Schools.
Although socioeconomic issues clearly do contribute to low test scores, they shouldn't be used to explain away everything.

I'm not saying that HES isn't a perfectly good school, I'm just saying that we shouldn't necessarily use these metrics to explain away low GS ratings.  
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Other schools with larger numbers of limited English percentages and higher FARMS rates, but higher great schools ratings:

Hollywood Elementary: GS #6. 35% limited English proficiency, similar FARMS rate
Lewisdale: GS #6, 57.5% limited English proficiency, 93.6% FARMS
Adelphi ES: GS #7, 42.5% limited English proficiency, 93.% FARMS
Rosa Parks ES: GS#4, 57% limited English proficiency, 92.5% FARMS
Chillum ES: GS#4, 36.6% limited English proficiency, 89.8% FARMS
Langley Park ES: GS #4, 46% limited English proficiency, greater than 95% FARMS

There are obviously some schools in the county that are doing really, really good reading and math work with their limited English proficiency and FARMS students and those schools should be congratulated.

I know there are great things going on at schools with a low GS score and there may be less than great things going on at schools with high GS scores, but it gets tiring to hear that a really low GS score is due only to socio-economic factors when some schools are often doing very well with the same challenges.

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