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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at Payne.  The teachers are fantastic.  It's small and nimble and handled the pandemic well.  I think if you surveyed folks you'd find that folks are generally happier at Payne than the surrounding schools and I don't know anyone who has left because of the education their kid was getting.  [/quote]

This is fantastic to hear. I worry about the test scores there making it a short-term only option, but also realize that things can change really quickly if families just take the leap and stay the course. We have 2 family friends with kids in 1st and both are very happy and planning to stay for next year, which is a great sign.[/quote]

test scores look solid to me - 60%+ meeting or exceeding expectations. trust me when I say there are fantastic kids and teachers in every school in DC. I am not pollyanna and would not send my kid to a severely troubled school. But Payne looks solid to me. [/quote]

Payne does not have 60% of kids meeting or exceeding grade level... Unless you’re counting 3s? No one counts 3s.[/quote]

This.  3 is not grade level people.  4 is grade level and 5 is above.[/quote]

BTW pretty easy to be at grade level if you are middle class.  5 is what you should be looking at for a high performing peer group.

DC uses 3 as acceptable to make things look better because performance and standards are so low in the city.  [/quote]

Honestly, if you have a little kid or baby and you're overwhelming focus is already that they must have a "high performing peer group," that's a pretty stressful way to live.  You have no idea what kind of kid you'll have.  You may have a kid who blossoms being a leader if they truly are "high performing." You may find that (gasp) your child actually is not "high performing" and your kid is a solid 3 or 4.  You may find that it's more important for you to have a small, nurturing school than your kid being part of a huge cohort of a "high performing peer group."  You may find that your little 5 actually gets more "differentiation" as an outlier.  You may even find that those 3s are nice and good friends to your "high performer" and that is more important than anything else.  There may be many non-academic factors that are more important, like access to a good aftercare program, a shorter commute, a tight school community with friends in the neighborhood, and of course, housing costs.  At the end of the day, this is *elementary school." There are a lot of things much, much more important than your kid being surrounded by 5s, and you actually have no idea how your kid's social, emotional, and academic trajectories are going to work out.  Advanced learning and "high performing peer groups" can come later.

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