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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey op, I don't disagree with your larger point that this is a shame.

But, it really would have been more fair and more honest of you to post the FARMs rates right alongside the % columns.

In other words, do ACPS and Arlington have identical SES in their student populations?  No, right?  And that drives everything. [/quote]

Alexandria's FARMS is 53%

Arlington's is 32%

That doesn't explain the outside-the-curve drop. Just 7% of GW2 8th graders passed the math SOL. 13% of GW1 8th graders did. At Hammond1, 41% did. At Hammon2, 35%

Even if you look at one of the better regarded elementary schools, they underperformed.

58% of MacArthury's 5th graders passed. 69% of Mason (better). 50% at Lyles Crouch. (All 5th graders)

Compare to Arlington Traditional: 96% of 5th graders passed; Glebe (probably similar in demographics): 91% of 5th graders passed. HOFFMAN-BOSTON had an 80% rate of passage on Math SOL for 5th graders.

Now, for the high schools, a TC to Wakefield comparison (since someone invariably yells "But! Wakefield" whenever TC is brought up here.

Just 50% of TC 9th graders passed Algebra 1. 62% passed Alegebra 2.

At Wakefield, those figures are 78% and 73%, respectively.

Since someone keeps saying "But! Wakefield"

Nor does it justify the response from the administration.[/quote]

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