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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are the proficiency results for high school.  It looks like Walls (a selective school that only accepts students with an A average GPA) has slightly pulled ahead of BASIS DC (a 100% lottery school).

Walls

ELA 94.66
Math 67.44

BASIS DC

ELA 92.06
Math 66.12

Banneker

ELA 88.62
Math 44.52

Latin

ELA 70.71
Math 30.47

DCI

ELA 41.87
Math 20.74
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This is high school?  Why is DCI so bad?[/quote]

There's a lot more than meets the eye with high school math PARCC scores. Analyze with caution.[/quote]

Kid at DCI?[/quote]

Not at all, I don't even have a child of that age. But if you read backwards through this thread and others, you'll see a discussion of how the math PARCC works and what it reports and does not report. I'm not saying any one school is better in math than another-- I'd have to really look through the data, and it depends on the modeling assumptions you make. The sad truth is PARCC doesn't tell us very much about math after 9th grade.[/quote]

I think the sheet backs that up. If you look at Jackson-Reed or Walls, the number of 9th graders taking one of the 3 Math PARCCs (A1, Geo or A2) adds up to their likely total class enrollment (~470 for JR and ~150 for Walls). Then in 10th grade, the total falls off dramatically (170+ for JR and ~30 for Walls) and mostly in Geo. Are the other kids not taking PARCC? The number of 9th graders taking A2 in J-R is only 49 and 212 took Geo PARCC, with the rest taking A1. If the same pattern held for the current 10th grade cohort, why are only n&lt;10 taking A2? The same pattern repeats for Banneker -- so the only thing I can conclude is that 10th graders mostly take Geo PARCC. If they have already done that earlier, then they don't seem to take PARCC at all? I may be missing something given the filters though.

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Nope, you've got the gist of it. Lots of kids take no PARCC math test at all. PARCC is a terrible test and the lack of data on upper-level math courses, and the performance of most 11th and 12th graders is one of the reasons I so dislike it.[/quote]

I don't know whether it makes sense for 11th and 12th graders to take PARCC at all, given SAT, PSAT, ACT and AP exams, the latter covering upper-level courses. That said, the proficiency rates for these are not where I would expect them --

J-R (9th only)
[b]A1 - 16%[/b] (and who knows how many 5s in that)
Geo - 40%
A2 - 51%

Walls
A1 - 62%
Geo - 715
A2 - 74%

The A2 results are odd, since these are kids from Deal, Hardy, Basis (and possibly privates) who have gone through Geo in 8th and are the more advanced kids.

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