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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the bottom line people. I’ll make it easy for everyone,

If your kid is at level 1 or 2 and you are looking for a school to help them “grow”, feel free to look at these parameters.

If your kid is at level 4 or 5, forget it, look and see if the majority of kids are at 4 and 5.[/quote]

And for those of us not inbound for schools with the majority of kids at 4-5 I think there is a difference between a school with 40-50% 3-5 and 10-20%.  My inbound might not be amazing but there seems to be enough on grade level kids to mean that they will be ignored.[/quote]

That’s not how it works.  So if you have 40-50% 3-5, that basically translates to maybe 20% at grade level at best because we know majority in that group are 3 and not 5.  The remaining 50-60% kids are all way below grade level.

Instead of keeping those 20% kids together and track them for grade level teaching.  Gasp!  We can’t have that because of “equity”.  What the school does is spread those 20% kids out among the 3 or 4 classes so you have a handful of kids in each class at best on grade level.  Teaching won’t be on grade level like your assumption.
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Love how you are confidently making things up for my inbound school.  It is actually 56% 3-5 and 35% 4-5.  Also students with 3’s are not hopelessly below grade-level and especially at the elementary level often include at least some students doing OK who test poorly.  My school also includes about 40% students that are English language learners so this suggests most native English students at the school are actually on or approaching grade-level.  The ELL students are getting significant push in and pull out help (95% of those made their growth targets!).  I acknowledge that this is not the same as being a Janney but I just don’t get why you are so invested at telling others that such a school couldn’t possibly work.[/quote]

It doesn’t matter where the 3’s are, they are not performing at grade level.  And at the poorly performing school, many are not high 3’s.  BTW, I would bet anything the majority of your 35% are 4 and very small percentage 5.

Also your 35% 4-5 are most likely concentrated in 3rd grade and those 4-5 PRACC significantly decreases in 4th and 5th.

OSSE is not transparent with the data because if they were, they would break down the percentages at each level and at each grade and you can easily see this.  But of course they don’t want you to know this.

BTW,why the vagueness.  Why don’t you tell us the name of your school.
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If you knew what the PARCC test was like, you would not be concerned about the breakdown of the 4-5 scorers. The test is terrible and unnecessarily challenging, and therefore does a poor job of determining if students are actually proficient in the grade level standards. There's a reason why literally every state except for DC had dropped the PARCC test before last school year.[/quote]

Except a lot of states use tests very similar to PARCC, and DC is locked into a contract to use the PARCC for some time longer.[/quote]

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