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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a great week for the Brent community. Many 4th graders without older siblings at charters didn't land a spot at the public middle schools parents applied them to - Washington Latin, BASIS, Stuart Hobson, Hardy, 2 Rivers, Creative Minds, Inspired Teaching etc. It sounds like two dozen of the 60 currently have no DC public option other than Jefferson Academy. Some will get off wait lists by the start of school. Some won't. Brent's 5th grade of 18 will be larger in the fall as a result.  No telling how big just yet.

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Brent's PARCC proficiency is about 62% according to Myschool DC (averaging ELA and math scores).

Jefferson's is about 12% (which, it should be noted, is substantially higher than Elliot-Hine and only a little lower than Stuart-Hobson).

If those two dozen kids from Brent went to Jefferson and 60% of them were proficient, the school could go from its current rate of about 12 proficient 6th graders in a class of 100 (12%) to 26 out of 124 (21%) and its scores would be higher than Stuart-Hobson and on par with Hardy.

That's a heavy lift for Brent parents, I understand.  The kids who are most likely to be proficient are the least likely to take a chance on Jefferson.  But the school does have enough proficient kids in the feeder pattern to raise the test scores just through a cohort effect alone. And the school has expressed willingness to differentiate to meet the needs of whoever enrolls. [/quote]

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