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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ITS' and your Ward 5 IB's test scores are due to their respective demographics.

14% of at-risk students at ITS were proficient or advanced on ELA and 8% were proficient or advanced at math.

How did the at-risk students do at your IB Ward 5?
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They did much worse than that, thanks for asking.  Also, the non-at-risk students at our IB did way worse than the non-at-risk students at ITS. [/quote]

What this says to me is that there is no magic anywhere. The achievement gap is vast almost everywhere*, even with ITS' vaunted expert teachers.

*KIPP, Ketchum, Thomson and a couple others being the exception. [/quote]

This.  Some schools may do a little better with it, especially if they have really talented or committed teachers and leadership, and extra funding that is raised/donated.  But it is very hard, especially when the at-risk students are a large majority of the school and there aren't as many higher-SES families to support fundraising and fill out the 4 and 5 sections of the PARCC.  And a lot of the schools doing well (charter and non-charter, I'm not trying to go down that road) achieve their seemingly impressive results by nudging out families who have serious academic or behavior troubles, carefully choosing the at-risk families who are easier and less costly to serve.  Schools that get good results while accepting all residents of an area, with high retention even of low-performing students and very few expulsions, are very hard to find.  [/quote]

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