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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also be aware of wide variation in special needs and ELL populations.  Some schools operate specialized classrooms for autism, behavior support, etc.  Some schools refuse to.  Some schools push out the harder kids so their at-risk population is the easier group of at-risk kids.  Some schools have the challenge of mid-year entries, others refuse to share in that work.[/quote]

Yep - I don't think you could use that crosstab data to describe school-level results with any degree of accuracy due to small sample size, population variation between schools, etc. But I do think that there are a bunch of middle and upper middle class black kids (and parents) in DC who are looking at achievement gaps in their schools and citywide and wondering how schools are serving kids like theirs. [/quote]

Totally agree. OSSE might give you the data if you asked.

I am really struck by the number of supposedlly HRCS that have an achievement gap despite having low at-risk and also a substantial population of non-at-risk AA kids, some who are not even low-income.[/quote]

Yep, me too. But if close to half the black kids at a school in the testing grades are at-risk and <2% of the white kids are at-risk (which is kinda roughly how my back of the envelope calculations show it would play out), that is really significant. [/quote]

Yes.  And sometimes the non-at-risk AA kids are not performing very well.  Why??? Schools should be prepared to answer.[/quote]

At our school it's the white kids who are performing lower than the average. And most kids are white. So what does that say? The other races are doing better than expected.[/quote]

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