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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to dig into the test scores. Demographics are so, so important in how test scores come out.

We are at a charter with similar test scores to the ones you listed. We are also in bounds for one of the best DCPS schools with some of the highest test scores in the city. We are only in first grade though - we re-evaluate every year and could jump ship at some point for the good DCPS.

Why are we sticking with the charter for now?
-- bilingual school. we are a bilingual family that wants our child to know the non-US citizen's heritage language (Spanish in this case).  
-- the median percentile growth (MPG) at our charter is higher than at the DCPS. This means that kids learn more in their classes in a given year than they would at the DCPS.
-- the reason growth is higher is that about 50% of the kids in the lower grades at the charter speak Spanish at home. It takes 8 years on average for ELL kid's English to catch up. 
-- the scores reflect the above trend of ELL kids starting to catch up in the higher grades. 3rd grade scores are very low, 4th grade are higher, and 5th grade scores are almost the same as the DCPS. But the average score across those years is about 20 percentage points lower than the DCPS. 
-- non-Latinos and non-ELLs score as highly as the same group at the DCPS. 
-- the school is smaller and more welcoming than the DCPS.

From the data, my conclusion is that the education is just as good at the charter although the demographics are quite different. And your child comes out bilingual. But yes, the overall PARCC scores don't look very impressive compared to the DCPS. [/quote]

"demographics" aren't an excuse. I want to see that the school does a good job closing the achievement gap. Some are better than others. [/quote]

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