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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No educated opinions on why Murch can't keep it together?  The answer can't be that it has a couple self-contained classrooms -- it always has. This isn't a new factor that explains persistent, relatively poor performance[/quote]

The at-risk percentage is much higher at Murch. The percentage of at-risk students is so small at most of its neighbor schools it isn't even tracked.

Murch 14%
Janney  (not tracked)
Lafayette 3.3%
Mann (not tracked)
Hearst 6%
Key not tracked 
Eaton 6%
Shepherd 13%
Oyster Adams 10%

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There is a lot of overlap between the individuals who are counted as "at risk" and the individuals in the self-contained classrooms.  Which, again, have been present all along in Murch for many years as its relative position has dropped compared to the schools listed above, plus a list of schools closer to downtown with even higher percentages of at-risk kids.  [/quote]

I just looked at the linked dashboard and don't see a dramatic drop over the years from the data they show.  There seems to have been a problem with the 5th grade math this year which is odd since the same teacher has been there for a long time.  In additional that cohort scored highly as 4th graders so something happened there. But over all there was a mild dip in scores which most of the schools listed above have had before too.   Example Janney Math 2014-2015 and reading 2015-2016.  I don't see a massive issue or 10 years of dropping scores which should alarm parents.[/quote]

What changed were the identities of the students being tested. You can't track these cohorts year to year because the boundary change and swing space caused a more than 35% change in individuals being tested. Its not like the kids who got 5s suddenly got 2s. The 5th grade cohort where 50% scored a 5 in third grade saw about 20% of the class leave during the swing space transition (most to Lafayette), while 23% of the class was new to Murch in 4th and 5th.[/quote]

This last explanation seems right.  I think the trend will start to reverse this year with more people wanting to come to the new renovated building, now that the school is out of the swing space. [/quote]

I didn't realize that the student population shifted so much!  That really does make it hard to generalize about Murch's performance.  It will be interesting to see how things go now that they are back in their (much improved) permanent space and there is more population stability.  [/quote]

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