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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sela has a low gap. Whittier has a low gap with at-risk kids outperforming not at risk on ELA. [/quote]

Enough with the sela boosting. Let them get to be a real size school before we star the boosting already. TIA[/quote]

Sela has 16% more students than Ross. (202 vs. 174). So if one isn't a "real size school" and can't take pride in its accomplishments, than neither should the other.[/quote]

I don't have a dog in this fight but I just went and looked at both schools and Ross seems to be doing better than Sela in every conceivable way - signficantly higher scores and almost no achievement gap.  Is the only thing that made you mention Ross that it's a small school, or am I missing some other obvious correlation?

I agree that being a small school doesn't mean there's nothing to be proud of, but not sure why a Sela booster would compare it to a school that is so clearly outperforming it.

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I'm not a Sela booster. I just don't think that Sela is too small to have its accomplishments disregarded. Or, if it is, there are other schools that should have their accomplishments disregarded too.
Ross and Sela have very different demographics (Sela is 17% white, Ross is 17% black; Sela is 22% at risk, Ross is 6%) not to mention the differences between DCPA and charters and language immersion vs. monolingual schools. Neither school is right for everyone (and it's not like most people can get into Ross anyway) but both seem to be doing well in their own ways--[b]they both get 4 stars[/b]--and it seems silly for someone to think we can applaud one school and not the other.[/quote]

Wait, where are you seeing 4 stars?  Is that on the OSSE page?  I don't care about Sela or Ross (had to google Ross to see where it was in the city and only know about Sela because it's oddly controversial on these boards) but if schools with scores that disparate can both get 4 stars I want to do some reading on what a star even means.[/quote]

https://osse.dc.gov/publication/dc-school-report-card-and-star-framework-technical-guide will give you lots of info about the star framework. Basically, it's not just how kids score on PARCC (though that's one factor) but also median growth percentiles (how a kid who scored in the Xth percentile on PARCC one year scores the following year) and several other metrics. A school whose students have more growth can score as well as a school where kids come in high and stay that way.[/quote]

Thank you![/quote]

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