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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What/who is behind the great schools data? THAT is what you want to know. It's unreliable. Talk to neighbors, friends but not on some random data that no one knows how it's calculated.

That said, we're an Ashburton family and really like the school. My kid has had amazing teachers. Don't love the principal. School is overcrowded and that has been something to get used to, for us and for my kid. But a very engaged community, wonderful parents and fun annual activities.

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Pretty sure each section has a question mark you can hover over that tells you where the data comes from. Virtually all the data they get comes from the NCES and Maryland Report Card Website, and those are reliable sources. Greatschools is probably the best school rating website. It’s 20000x better than Niche and US News, which use arbitrary criteria to rank their schools. It’s much better than schooldigger, which doesn’t factor equity into its rankings. GS ratings are 100% based on standardized test scores, AP participation and passing rates (for high schools), academic progress from year to year (for elementary and middle schools), how well schools are closing the academic achievement gap/how well their students from disadvantaged backgrounds do in all the previously mentioned factors. IMO, that is 100% what school ratings should be. No rating system is perfect because people look for different things in a school, but great schools is by far the most interactive and the most all inclusive of all the rating websites (though it’s still not perfect).

If you go to Ashburton’s page, you can very clearly see that the equity section has the lowest score, 5/10. When you look into the equity section, you can see that all different student groups (white, Black, and Hispanic) are performing well above the state average for their demographics EXCEPT for Asian students, whose test scores are falling way below the state average for Asian students. That’s drooling their equity rating down. Another thing that is causing the equity rating to be low is that there is still a huge gap between white and Black/Hispanic students’ test scores even if Black/Hispanic students are performing above the state average. [/quote]

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