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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If SWW, McKinley, and Banneker cannot fill up on kids with 5/5, where are the additional 150 for this school.going to come from?[/quote]

The only middle schools with 10 or more students with 5s on PARCCC ELA are Deal, Hardy, KIPP Key, BASIS and Washington Latin. DCI had 9.

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Don't make too much of the 5s. The PARCC cut score is deigned to have a very low percentage of 5s. If there were more, they would change the test and raise the cut score. They track it. The test is designed so that 4 is college ready score. Frankly the test would be just as valid if they did away with 5s altogether.

This chart shows how across all states using the test, the % of 5s is very low. This is intentional. Note also that when you get to math subject tests, you don't really have many 5s because it is one thing to be advanced in math generally as a 3rd grader (9.1%), but awkward to say someone is advanced in a specific Algebra II curriculum (1.8%). You either learned it or you didn't. Anyone getting a 4+ learned it.

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Still, the number of 8th graders with 5/5 scores is very small.  And if you take out the number who would consider Early College but happen to prefer Ellington, Wilson, SWW, Banneker, or McKinley, and then rule out everyone who would find the commute too long, that leaves hardly anyone.

I predict this will go nowhere, and if it does, it will be watered-down and nowhere near the actual academic level of Early College.  DCPS needs to focus on its actual problems and the abysmal functioning of the schools that it has, not dangle shiny objects.  I'm all for better serving kids EOTR, but how about-- I know it sounds crazy-- actually meeting the needs of all the kids from PK3 onward?  [/quote]

The admissions will be by interview, not test score, so not sure why all this commentary on PARCC scores. [/quote]

Because the point is, there just won't be enough kids who are truly on the Early College academic level to make this school work as intended.  [/quote]

Does it offend you that Ward 7 and 8 kids with mere 4s on PARCC who may "just" end up at Towson might be able to benefit from this program? Is it that you think your own child deserves a better middle school instead?[/quote]

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