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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Room for improvement yes, but those score are good and show that things are improving. I've been listening/reading the debate about funding between the schools, and while it seems that Oyster receives a little less than Lamb per student, does it make for the huge gap in SES? By right, Oyster should be doing better with a higher SES, but their year over year change didn't move. Lamb's on the other hand grew at an 8% clip. Could it be the 5K extra? Maybe. Both schools have different approaches to education so its probably not an apples to apples comparison.[/quote]

You do realize that FARMs students make up[b] 29%[/b] of Oyster’s student body, right?  LAMB is [b]31%[/b] FARMS (Yu Ying is [b]20%[/b] FARMS).  If that is a huge gap in SES, then the $5k more, per pupil, that LAMB receives over Oyster is a huge gap in funding (well, actually it is…).  While I will grant you that Oyster’s wealthy families are most likely far wealthier than the more well-off families at most of the charters, I don’t think the score gap is completely due to that fact.  For example, Murch is in Chevy Chase and has far fewer FARMs students (9%) and ELL than Oyster, but its test scores are lower (80.8% combined reading/math score).  Why is that?  Although there are many theories, no one has figured out exactly what the special sauce is over at Oyster.  However, we do know that the teachers/students/families (not that principal though) are doing something right.  And yes, there is still room for improvement at Oyster.    [/quote]

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