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I will echo what another parent wrote - as a Cap Hill resident, the number of Brent (and other) parents at Mathnasium and private tutors is quite large. Not knocking that, each parent should do what they can to support their kid. But it inflates the scores at those schools due to factors not related to actual school instruction, which means those kids at the school who aren’t supplementing outside of school will underperform bc the quality of instruction at the school was not what led to the high scores in the first place.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone have any other observations from the data about other schools? [/quote]

Some schools (a mix of DCPS and charters--Whittier, Payne, some of the Friendship and Center City schools, etc.) are far outperforming their high at-risk populations.
[b]Some schools (mostly charters like Shining Stars and Breakthrough) are far underperforming considering their low at-risk populations[/b].

Montessori and high standardized test scores don't fit together in DC. Bilingual education sometimes does, but it varies across schools and demographic groups.

Of the schools with few at-risk kids, some are better at serving them than others.

In most of the schools with many at-risk kids, the kids who aren't at risk (current proxy: white, since we don't have non-at-risk data) are doing pretty well, but there is considerable variation.

Schools that are near each other can have big variations in test scores. Some of this is self-reinforcing as families move to the boundary with the higher-performing school, some is likely due to having self-contained special ed classes clustered at certain schools, some might actually be about better teaching or administration at a given school. It's hard to tell.

If your goal is to find an elementary school with a decent peer group of kids scoring 4+ in both ELA and math (what you consider decent could vary, but let's say a majority of kids on both tests) there are more options than you might think. For elementary, in addition to the JR and McArthur feeders there's Brent, Maury, SWS, Ludlow-Taylor, Ross, Yu Ying, and MV Calle Ocho. 
And if you go down to 45% scoring 4+ in each, you add Whittier, LAMB, ITDS, Stokes, Friendship Chamberlain, Payne, and Garrison.
Others that are close include Burroughs, Chisholm, and Marie Reed. [/quote]

I'm not fan of Shining Stars, but apparently it has 53% low income and a stunning 23% homeless.

https://schoolreportcard.dc.gov/lea/166/school/3066/report#measure-107[/quote]

Shining Stars and Whittier have the same at-risk percentage: 43%. At SS, 34% of kids scored a 3+ in math; at Whittier it was 81%. Chisholm, Sela, Burroughs, and Center City Congress Heights all do significantly better than SS with very similar percentages at-risk.

Other notable underperformers in math considering at risk rate include Stokes (only 6% at risk--less than Mann, Brent, Hearst, SWS, Stoddert, or Oyster!), Lee Montessori (they have 15% at risk--similar to Hyde-Addison and Maury but with far lower scores), Breakthrough (and it's not Montessori to blame here--CHML has the same at-risk percentage but the 3+ rate is 13 percentage points higher), and Lee Montessori EE (Lewis has the same at-risk percentage but 3+ proficiency is 55 percentage points higher!), Miner, and Ketcham.

For ELA, leaving out the bilingual schools, I noticed both campuses of Lee, Learn DC, Two Rivers Young, Amidon-Bowen, Langley, Miner, Ketcham, and some of the Rocketship campuses all did worse than schools with similar at-risk populations.

The outliers look different when you look at 4+. And not all at-risk kids are the same. And there's more to schools than test scores. And a school that does great with at-risk kids might not be the right fit for a kid with a different life. But it is interesting.  [/quote][/quote]

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