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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is true.  I sometimes wonder if Spanish immersion was a good choice for Tyler ES a decade back.  Payne's prospects look brighter to me, with a snazzy renovation a few years ago, strong new leadership, greater community buy-in in the lower grades all the time, and hundreds of new residential units going up in the Payne District.

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If I were the chancellor, I would cluster Brent and Tyler. Make the smaller school all bilingual and the larger monolingual and let everyone in-boundary rank their preferences. More bilingual seats and greater economic diversity. [/quote]

Clustering is the solution to improving Miner, Payne, and Tyler that freaks everyone the f out.  But I am in favor of it.  EH should be closed and combined with SH or Jefferson.  QED.  [/quote]

I would love to see Maury and Miner clustered (you could make Miner the PK3-1 and Maury the 2-5) and Brent and Tyler clustered (one bilingual one not).

If EH closes and everyone gets a right to SH (closer than Jefferson) the school would be overcrowded. One option would be to put all the 6th and 7th graders at one and the 8th graders at another (or do 5th and 6th at one, 7&8 at the other, and leave more room for PK-4 at the elementaries). It would also help if Payne became a Jefferson feeder and SWS stopped having a feeder--it's a citywide school so everyone could just go to their IB MS. [/quote]

SWS feeder irrelevant as very few families no one goes to EH.  Maybe DCPS should let SWS go through 8th grade like CHML[/quote]

Horrible idea - [b]SWS has a hard time dealing with upper elementary, which is part of the reason why people aren’t unhappy to jump to charter at 5th[/b].[/quote]

The parents who jump from SWS do so in 5th grade, not 3rd or 4th, and they do so for the exact same reasons that Brent and Maury families leave -  because they see a better MS path in charters.  A lot of those families would stay through 8th if the option was there.  For a school that spends zero time doing PARCC prep SWS still scores among the highest in DC, including 5th grade.[/quote]

Super white + achievement gap. [b]LT has higher scores for both white kids and AA kids[/b]. Hard to compare tho -- only 15 of 102 test takers at SWS were African American last year.[/quote]

You should check your math.  It's wrong[/quote]

False. People seem to find it impossible to understand that demographics drive the aggregate scores. Particularly in a city with an achievement gap as large as DC's, dis-aggregating the data tells you way more. In the sense that matters, L-T has the best test scores on the Hill. Full stop. Now, maybe you don't think test scores matter at all. Fine. But if you do, dis-aggregating the data is the only way to find out about much of anything beyond the demographics of a school.[/quote]

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