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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Looks like there is a strong correlation between a school's average score and it's SES. [/quote]

I would refine your definition of correlation.

These are % of passing students not average scores. A school with a bunch of kids scoring a 5 is not pulling up the average to hide kids who score a 2.

The scores may show that low SES students have a very high propensity to fail the test. Therefore a school with a high percentage of FARMS student could not reach the top tanks. The scores do not show that high SES students have a high propensity to pass the test regardless of which school they attend.

There are many schools that do not have a high percentage of FARMS kids with high failure rates. This is not correlating with SES at all. You can't dismiss or chalk up school performance to solely being a factor of SES.

UMC kids can and do do poorly when parents assume they will do just fine because they are UMC kids.

It would be VERY interesting to see the grades aligned with PARCC scores by schools. For the high Algebra rate failures, it certainly appears that some middle schools are putting kids in Algebra 1 that do not have the skills to succeed in that class. [/quote]

I would also suggest expanding your definition of low SES. It isn't the same as FARMs.[/quote]

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