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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WTAF Walls? 9th graders are the students who were selected based on scores and interviews, and 7 months in, they can't scrounge up better than 29% proficient in math?? [/quote]

This is why there should be an admissions test …[/quote]

Well you have to understand how the math PARCC works. It only tests Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry. So if a kid came in for 9th grade having completed Algebra II, they might not show up in the test scores at all. What you're seeing in all high school PARCC summaries is basically the lower half of the math students. I agree that math scores in DC generally aren't so hot, but it's not the case that most Walls students are failing math. Many are taking other math classes, so they don't take the PARCC for math. Just one of the many reasons the PARCC is a worthless test.[/quote]

At Walls 135 out of about 155 9th graders took the math PARCC, and 77 passed it. If you assume the 20 others would have passed, your overall freshman pass rate would be 97/155, or about 63%. [/quote]

Yup. And it's also the case that some kids were taking a class above their grade level. If a 9th grader takes Algebra II or Geometry, for example, and they get a 3, that's still doing pretty well. We can see that out of the 139 (I know you said 135 but what I see from OSSE is 139) PARCC-takers who were in 9th grade, 21 took Alegebra 1. That means that a lot of the 9th graders who took the PARCC took Algebra II or Geometry, but the exact numbers are masked with "DS" for some reason.

Actually of the 151 math PARCC-takers from Walls, 139 of them were 9th graders. The remaining 12 were 10th graders. This is a great example of how when you look at PARCC scores you're seeing the youngest and lowest-performing students. [/quote]

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