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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP nailed it. What would a Shaw middle school offer to make it different from Cardozo? You need a critical mass of high achieving students to turn a middle school around.[/quote]

Shaw MS would have a different group of feeder schools than Cardozo that potentially do in fact have a critical mass of high achieving students.  Right now this cluster of schools is divided for the temporary feeder system with two of the schools going to SWW.[/quote]

The dual feed will be shut off soon, just like it was for Eaton.  Especially since. the PK-8 models are being phased out. [/quote]

what schools would feed to shaw that produce a consistent and large cohort of high achieving students?[/quote]

If the SWW and Cardozo feeds were combined at Cardozo, you'd get a pretty good number. Using the grade audits from https://osse.dc.gov/page/2017-18-school-year-enrollment-audit-report-and-data and the results dc PARCC info (averaging the math and ELA scores of 4 or 5):

Cleveland: 31 5th graders, 33% proficiency = 10 proficient kids (note: some are in the dual-language program and also have rights to MacFarland)
Garrison: 24 5th graders, 13% proficiency =  3 proficient kids
Ross: 12 5th graders, 75% proficiency = 9 proficient kids (note: if Ross stopped being able to get away with not filling their testing-grades classes through the lottery, there might be a couple more here)
Seaton: 30 5th graders, 29% proficiency = 9 proficient kids
SWW: 44 5th graders, 49% proficiency = 22 proficient kids (note: if middle school left SWW, there'd be room for more 5th graders)
Thomson: 32 5th graders, 23 % proficiency = 7 proficient kids
 
60 proficient kids per grade with a right to attend is decent, even noting that some will choose charters, OOB, or private schools. I'm sure Deal and Hardy have more 5th graders at their feeder schools who are proficient, but this is a high enough number to offer advanced classes (especially given that my numbers average math and ELA...there may be may kids who'd qualify for advanced math but not ELA or vice versa) and for kids on or above grade level to have some peers. Is it going to work for a family that wants a Lake Wobegone school? No. But the families who send kids to these schools for 5th grade seem open to having a mix of kids.[/quote]

There is the obvious problem that the proposed middle school would need to do tracking. And DCPS is anti-tracking. At least that is what failed Brookland middle.[/quote]

Could you clarify what tracking means?  I'm not familiar with that.[/quote]

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