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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WG scored 8.9% below what would have been expected based on its percentage of at-risk kids; JA did better, but still scored 
4.7% lower than the trendline.

Both did better than Elliot Hine and Stuart-Hobson on this metric.

https://ggwash.org/view/64796/want-the-best-dc-school-for-your-child-look-beyond-demographics[/quote]

Ha, I (PP) see someone is saying exactly what I just did. What really counts, is what difference the school makes to any one student, including yours.
By the way, you'll find on those really interesting metrics that all middle schools do more poorly than "expected" (given their "input" = student demographics). Middle school is hard to get right, hard to make a difference at all. Good to hear these schools are having an impact.[/quote]

Some middle schools do better than Jefferson on this metric: DC Prep, Friendship Blow-Pierce, Hart, Kelly Miller, etc. Some middle schools aren't ranked because they have so few kids or so few at-risk kids. Others it's hard to tell because the link above doesn't break out test scores for elementary and middle at schools that have both.

However, the schools that do better or aren't ranked have wait lists, and they all have different feels. So which ones a family ranks and which ones they prefer can really depend.  I'm not saying JA is the perfect school or even the best school for everyone. I'm saying that it's better than a lot of people give it credit for, does better in some regards than schools that many people (especially rich/white people) think are better, and is worth ranking knowing that its waitlist is probably shorter than that of a lot of other schools.[/quote]

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