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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ Many high-performing DC high schools in the past year, including McKinley Tech, had a tumble in CAPE scores. DCI went up in their IB (International Baccalaureate) scores. Which would you prefer they go up in? (I would prefer IB, not the CAPE, produced by the people who brought us PARCC, which hardly anyone uses.) These high schools are working hard to get their CAPE scores up, but there's more to their accomplishments than this one number. [/quote]

Yeah, especially for high school CAPE numbers, particularly Math numbers, are close to irrelevant.  Look at SATs, AP scores, college admissions, school approaches, discipline, attendance numbers, almost anything else before CAPE numbers.

The only reason why they are at all relevant in elementary school is because they are the only numbers we have, and everyone takes them.  Neither of these is true at the high school level.[/quote]

True.  High schools who offer very advance math tracks and have a good cohort of kids on that track, none are taking the CAPE at all.[/quote]

I believe this, but am curious where you find those other numbers? Are SATs and AP scores publicly available for all schools? What about ELA CAPE scores? Are those irrelevant at the high school level as well?[/quote]

Here is the thing with ELA.  All the feeder kids have 50% less ELA instruction then typical non immersion schools. Then in middle and high school, all kids are required to take languages the whole way thru.  The highest performing kids are taking at least 1/2 if not more of the courses in the language then English.

So i’m not surprised that DCI ELA is a little lower then non-immersion and non-language required schools.  I’ll take 5-10% lower ELA score on my kid any day for the trade off of being fluent in another language in speaking, reading, writing, etc..

So to really compare apples to apples, you should compare ELA at DCI with other IB schools.[/quote]

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