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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone know if Lee's test scores went up this year?  Too lazy to look them up myself. :)[/quote]

Yes, they went up a bit.

"Compared to 2019, 5% more students are scoring 4 or 5 on Math, while nearly 10% more are scoring 4 or 5 on ELA. 32% of all students scored proficient on Math while 36% scored proficient in ELA." [/quote]

They were one of a handful of schools that improved post-pandemic.  Chill out anti-charter warrior.  Talk to some Upper Elementary parents.[/quote]

Omg.  So a modest improvement, which is good, be ut still 2/3 of the kids at Lee are below grade level.  Wow.[/quote]

Uh, isnt that true of the city as a whole?  City wide is 31 percent proficient in ELA, 19 percent proficient in math.

¨In spring 2019, the last time students took the exam, 37 percent of students were reading at or above grade level. Now, 31 percent meet that standard. The share of students who passed the math exam fell 12 percentage points, from 31 percent before the pandemic to 19 percent in 2022 — the lowest ever recorded in the city.¨

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/02/dc-schools-parcc-test/[/quote]

Lee's scores are similar to our IB Title 1 school, where 99% of students are FARMS and there is a very high percentage of students with housing insecurity, an at-risk designation, or an IEP. Our IB is actually a phenomenal school but it's working with a population of students that have lots of needs outside of academics so it is unsurprising that scores remain low despite their excellent efforts.

With Lee the lower scores tend to get blamed on a different pace for learning at a Montessori school but given their population (high-SES with a much smaller population of FARMS kids, minimal IEPs, few if any housing insecure kids), it is still strange that less than 50% of the kids tested are at or above grade level. Sure, some of the non-Montessori schools testing higher might be "teaching to the test" in a way that gives them an edge. But not a 30-40% edge. Lee's PARCC scores are concerning.[/quote]

A lot of these title 1 schools are also teaching to the test…so I think is best if people stop focusing so much on PARCC scores.[/quote]

I think that’s breathtakingly unfair to the teachers and students of some of these Title 1 schools. I understand that Lee boosters are surprised to be going through their waitlist so quickly, but as some other schools improve academically, there might be less demand at Lee. And for a school as equity-focused as Lee, this should be a good thing. [/quote]

What is Lee's plan to reduce its massive achievement gap?[/quote]

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