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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seaton's performance on PARCC has improved each year.

Last year 47% were proficient or advanced in Math; 31% were proficient or advanced in ELA.

Grade 3 performed better than grade 4. [/quote]

Seaton is a very impressive school and their principal has done wonders.  However, as long as it lacks a good middle and high school feed, people won't be fully satisfied and retention will struggle.  It's too bad-- DCPS just cannot seem to get a grip on middle school.  I would propose Ludlow-Taylor and Watkins as schools to keep an eye on, because Stuart-Hobson is making progress.  Personally, for the middle school years, I would favor Stuart-Hobson over doing middle school at Inspired Teaching, Two Rivers, CMI, etc., because a larger school can offer more different classes and activities.  [/quote]

This is a good point. There are not even enough 5th graders to report PARCC scores for last year. [/quote]

Seaton is a very impressive school and I am in no way trying to knock it.  I backed out the 5th grade test scores from the SY 16-17 data and they are as follows:

ELA: 33.2%/16.8%/8.4%/37.5%/4.1%

Math: 12%/13%/29%/29%/17%

So not quite as good as the 3rd and 4th grade scores, but still quite good.  I don't know what their special sauce is, but clearly it is working.

However, I have to ask what happens when they need to operate more upper-grade classrooms.  For SY 16-17 data, it looks like there were two third grade classrooms, and only classroom for fourth and one for fifth.  In the current year, going by the website, seems like it's two classrooms at each grade level.  So where did those additional kids come from and will they score as well?  Time will tell.   I would not be surprised if scores dip a little bit, and would not consider it a red flag under the circumstances. 
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