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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question - for students who received 5s on PARCC for 2 years running, is their score penalized for growth? [/quote]

Not the final number but growth on scores within range for that number.[/quote]

The student is not penalized but the school is disadvantaged, on its report card, because growth is more difficult and there is less room for it (since it is constrained by the upper boundary).[/quote]

So, I haven’t done a deep dive into this ranking, but on lots of national rankings, a 5-to-5 scoring child is excluded from the growth scoring rather than treated as no growth. It’s not perfect, but it solves part of the problem.[/quote]

Given that almost all 5 star schools come from among the usual suspects (i.e., schools that also have very high proficiency), it’s hard to say growth is getting overemphasized to the exclusion of proficiency at the top end. Marie Reed is the only school in the 5 star category that I find remotely surprising and I assume that’s just my ignorance and/or their growth is *that* good. Like, Brent and Ross parents can bitch all they want, but ultimately Maury and Janney are two of the top scoring schools in the city by either proficiency or this ranking, so obviously it’s not like objectively highly proficient student bodies can’t max out these rankings too.[/quote]

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