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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.
[b]Some schools (mostly charters like Shining Stars and Breakthrough) are far underperforming considering their low at-risk populations[/b].

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]

I'm not fan of Shining Stars, but apparently it has 53% low income and a stunning 23% homeless.

https://schoolreportcard.dc.gov/lea/166/school/3066/report#measure-107[/quote]

Shining Stars and Whittier have the same at-risk percentage: 43%. At SS, 34% of kids scored a 3+ in math; at Whittier it was 81%. Chisholm, Sela, Burroughs, and Center City Congress Heights all do significantly better than SS with very similar percentages at-risk.

Other notable underperformers in math considering at risk rate include Stokes (only 6% at risk--less than Mann, Brent, Hearst, SWS, Stoddert, or Oyster!), Lee Montessori (they have 15% at risk--similar to Hyde-Addison and Maury but with far lower scores), Breakthrough (and it's not Montessori to blame here--CHML has the same at-risk percentage but the 3+ rate is 13 percentage points higher), and Lee Montessori EE (Lewis has the same at-risk percentage but 3+ proficiency is 55 percentage points higher!), Miner, and Ketcham.

For ELA, leaving out the bilingual schools, I noticed both campuses of Lee, Learn DC, Two Rivers Young, Amidon-Bowen, Langley, Miner, Ketcham, and some of the Rocketship campuses all did worse than schools with similar at-risk populations.

The outliers look different when you look at 4+. And not all at-risk kids are the same. And there's more to schools than test scores. And a school that does great with at-risk kids might not be the right fit for a kid with a different life. But it is interesting.  [/quote]

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