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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]At Sligo, the drop is much steeper. There is a very large contingent (possible majority) of completely unmotivated kids at Sligo that you won't find at a school like Westland. Again, there are very smart, highly motivated kids at Sligo. My daughter is part of that group so she is doing great at Sligo. After a quick Google search, there is a HUGE difference if you add in PARCC scores of 4.

Westland - 66% of students scored 4 or 5 
Sligo - 35% of students scored 4 or 5

This was taken from a 2017 report. I seriously doubt the numbers changed much. http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/parcc2017/middle/[/quote]

No doubt that school wide, there are many more kids at Westland who are passing than at Sligo. That wasn't really the question posed upthread, though. The question was whether it would be worth risking bankruptcy to move west. If the scores for sub-groups are similar at each school, but there are just MORE of one sub-group at a certain school than another, then it doesn't make sense to beggar oneself to live in-bounds for Westland.

I realize that comparing white kids to white kids is problematic, but it does help get to this question of whether an individual child would do about the same at each school.

All of the comparisons below are 6th grade ELA, because that was the first landing page on the Maryland School Report Card but I suspect the results would hold more or less true.

At Sligo, about 70 percent of white kids get a 4 or 5. Exactly the same as Westland. At Westland, about 70 percent of white kids get a 4 or 5.

Now let's look at Black kids. At Silgo, about 44 percent get a 4 or a 5. At Westland, about 43 percent get a 4 or a 5.

The sub-groups perform pretty much identically at each school, suggesting the quality of education at each is the same, and suggesting that no one is doing a great job educating kids of color.

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Well thought out response, thank you.  I can't disagree with anything you said.  [/quote]

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