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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ITS continues it have solid middle school performances. This year, the first year to have 40+ in graduating 8th graders, I’ve heard they had double digits in elite privates (Maret, SJC, Gonzaga, Sidwell), double digits at SWW/Banneker/McKinley. I’ve heard nothing but great things about the new head of school.[/quote]
 
A LOT of that has to do more the the upper income families than the school. Many of these kids would have done fine at any school with tutoring and all kids of resources.  The middle school seems okay but I want to know how much they lifted up the lower preforming students?? What about those kids that joined in 5th or 6th and we're behind.. did ITDS catch them up??  Did the already high preforming kids grow of just keep up enough to look good?[/quote]

This is an excellent point.  Inspired has pretty impressive test scores if you just look at the total of kids who are at 3 or 4 or above, but their scores are about on par with the demographics, generally, and their growth rates seem lackluster.  For example, their ELA median growth percentile is lower than DC averages for most subgroups (including white kids).  So, this suggests to me that a typical UMC kid can get a fine education there, but I'm not sure the scores suggest the instruction is better than other schools with lower test scores.  I think the kids who got into fancy prep schools probably would have gotten into them from any school, not because of or despite ITS.[/quote]

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