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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone have any other observations from the data about other schools? [/quote]

Some schools (a mix of DCPS and charters--Whittier, Payne, some of the Friendship and Center City schools, etc.) are far outperforming their high at-risk populations.
Some schools (mostly charters like Shining Stars and Breakthrough) are far underperforming considering their low at-risk populations.

Montessori and high standardized test scores don't fit together in DC. Bilingual education sometimes does, but it varies across schools and demographic groups.

Of the schools with few at-risk kids, some are better at serving them than others.

In most of the schools with many at-risk kids, the kids who aren't at risk (current proxy: white, since we don't have non-at-risk data) are doing pretty well, but there is considerable variation.

Schools that are near each other can have big variations in test scores. Some of this is self-reinforcing as families move to the boundary with the higher-performing school, some is likely due to having self-contained special ed classes clustered at certain schools, some might actually be about better teaching or administration at a given school. It's hard to tell.

If your goal is to find an elementary school with a decent peer group of kids scoring 4+ in both ELA and math (what you consider decent could vary, but let's say a majority of kids on both tests) there are more options than you might think. For elementary, in addition to the JR and McArthur feeders there's Brent, Maury, SWS, Ludlow-Taylor, Ross, Yu Ying, and MV Calle Ocho. 
And if you go down to 45% scoring 4+ in each, you add Whittier, LAMB, ITDS, Stokes, Friendship Chamberlain, Payne, and Garrison.
Others that are close include Burroughs, Chisholm, and Marie Reed. [/quote]

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