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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]500’s on SAT and 3’s on AP, especially at a school so heavy on homework with little extracurriculars, is mediocre as previous posters have said.  It’s average and not typical stats for a test in school or magnet equivalent.

If kids are getting 3’s on AP exams, then the AP courses either must not be that rigorous or are not preparing them well for the AP test.  Then add in the strict KIPP like culture of the school from the principal.

I’m not surprised educated families with high performing kids are not sending their kids there. I say this as an educated minority.  [b]It’s not always about racism. [/b] Data and numbers don’t lie.

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Part of the problem is clearly lack of competition among students. An influx of strong students of various races would shake things up at Banneker.  But no influential stakeholders seem to want this, enabling the status quo to carry the day year after year, decade after decade. The mediocre tests scores, which belie lack of preparedness for advanced college work on the part of many Banneker students and an off-putting KIPP type culture, have been granted a staying power.

I used to teach at Blair Montgomery HS.  More than 30 years ago, Blair was a school that was heavily minority, which weak test scores.  MoCo created two test-in HS programs--one for STEM and one for humanities--with a county-wide draw to change that.  Within just a few years, strong students from all around the county were flocking to Blair.  The test-in programs still give a preference in admissions to qualified students from the Blair catchment area, which remains heavily minority.  DCPS just doesn't innovate like that.  SATs in the 500s for a magnet HS and mostly 3s on APs, no problem, good enough.[/quote]

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