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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would be the issue with a system that combines grades and a test score as elements of admission? Wouldn’t that be most effective in identifying the top students?

Why are people afraid of a standardized test?[/quote]

There is absolutely no ethical issue with this, because it actually was the system in DC for Walls for many, many years, until the pandemic! It's so weird to me that the city hasn't corrected this. 
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What is the right person/entity to contact to express this view? Is it DME? The chancellor? I confess I don't really understand how DCPS is governed.[/quote]

I don’t have any personal knowledge, but what I’ve gleaned from DCUM was that the former test was used to identify a pool which was then selected by interview. I don’t think that was much more selective than the current process.[/quote]

It has become quite a bit more selective because the number of qualified students who apply has increased as the number of DC students who stay through middle school and apply or lottery for public high schools increases.

If I wanted to know more about these processes I would go to my council on education and ask there.  Possibly have a meeting or ask questions of my council member (acknowledging that the Mayor's office and the Mayor's office alone has governance over the running of DCPS) and take it from there.[/quote]

Do you have data that more students are applying to application high schools than in the past? Banneker is a much bigger school now and to my knowledge Walls has had a relatively constant number of applicants each year.  Well over a thousand for the past decade plus.[/quote]

This is available here: https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/61

9th grade applicants

SY14-15
Banneker 754
McKinley 897
Walls 1097

SY15-16
Banneker 654
McKinley 693
Walls 1016

SY16-17
Banneker 588
McKinley 652
Walls 969

SY17-18
Banneker 678
McKinley 704
Walls 1095

SY18-19
Banneker 713
McKinley 801
Walls 1240

SY19-20
Banneker 796
McKinley 780
Walls 1213

SY20-21
Banneker 815
McKinley 1101
Walls 1263

SY21-22
Banneker 854
McKinley 931
Walls 1325

SY22-23
Banneker 1050
McKinley 979
Walls 1447

SY23-24
Banneker 1149
McKinley 1216
Walls 1627

SY24-25
Banneker 1291
McKinley 1271
Walls 1527[/quote]

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