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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DcTag also has an income threshold so make sure you'll actually eligible for it.

Second, the education in the burbs will be superior to the education you get in DC.[/quote]

I dispute your second point if we are talking about college prep kids taking APs.[/quote]

Get out of DC public schools as quickly as you can.  DCPS is dismal.

Students in third through eighth grades, as well as high school students, took assessments in the spring for the first time in two years. The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) on Friday released the results, which show declines in math and reading across the board.

"We saw declines across all eight wards, and we saw more declines in the elementary school grades than we did in the higher grades," D.C. Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Christina Grant said.

Grant said math scores dropped significantly from 31% of students testing at grade level in 2019 to 19% testing at grade level in 2022.

Reading scores were slightly better with 31% of students testing at grade level this year. In 2019, 37% of students tested at grade level.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-students-show-major-decline-in-math-reading-since-pandemic-began/3148351/

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HS PARCC scores are notoriously hard to interpret.  Only 10th graders take PARCC, but only 10th graders in Algebra II or below.  Many of the advanced kids are done with Algebra II in 9th, so they aren't taking the test.  So, Walls has a 95% English rate of a 4 or 5, but it drops to 73% in Math...only because everyone is taking the English, but only the less advanced Math kids take the Math.  Add to that the genius of administering PARCC (which is meaningless to the student) when AP tests happen (which are meaningful to the student), and you have some kids skipping PARCC or just randomly completing it because they are focused on AP tests.

If PARCC is irrelevant to the student (no awards or $$$s for scoring high...no impact on their grades, etc.)...then they need to figure out a better way of gauging HS progress.[/quote]

This comment neatly sidesteps the fact that the biggest declines were at the elementary level, and will have ripple effects up to HS as those cohorts age. DCPS is getting worse, and it wasn't great to begin with.

If you are a parent making longterm plans about where to live and where to send your child to school, quibbling over whether PARCC math scores are accurate because some kids at Walls (a HS you truly have to win a lottery to attending the first place) have advanced beyond the subject being tested is just rearranging deck chairs.

Even if you can assume that a higher percentage of Walls students are at or above grade level in math than PARCC results show, the truth is that the vast majority of DCPS high school students area below grade level in reading and in math. And those that are at or above generally have parents who supplement considerably because DCPS does very little to meet on-grade-level or advanced students where they are at, as their focus is and will always be on the many, many students who are below grade level.[/quote]

Still don't understand why the overall results of DCPS as a whole are relevant.  If you are in a position to leave DC for HS, [b]then you are not choosing Einstein or Blair or [/b]Alexandria Public Schools...you are choosing to move to get in-bounds for a specific school such as Whitman or Langley.

Without a doubt someone could be making the decision that I will wait and see if I get into Walls, and if not then I will move to Whitman or Langley.

OP specifically asks about HS.  In general, the families that are seriously considering Walls usually have high performing kids.[/quote]
You have no clue of what you're talking about. More people moved to these schools (especially Blair) than the W schools. [/quote]

People go to Blair magnet, but nobody who has more than two nickels to rub together moves to those school boundaries.[/quote]

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