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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shepherd ES is ranked too low. They had some of the top scores in DC.[/quote]

It's a great school and the scores are very respectable, but they're not better than some of the higher ranked schools. But the methodology, whatever it is, is not based on just scores. HA is right above SWS, Murch, and Brent - all of which have higher scores. I think a lot of the ranking is based on whatever algorithm calculates this:

[i]Reading Performance
A descriptive term reflecting a school's reading/language arts percentage proficiency compared with the percentage U.S. News predicted for it. The predicted value was calculated scientifically based on each school's economic and ethnic diversity and these subgroups' relationship to elementary school reading/language arts proficiency in the state.[/i]

That would also explain why some of the HRCS are lower than many would expect, since they have lower scores overall and bigger achievement gaps than many of the higher ranked DCPS (but disproportionately higher numbers of high scoring white/higher SES kids, which raises their scores compared to the non-Wilson feeder DCPS).[/quote]

That is just rewarding WOTP and Cap Hill schools for being the whitest. Shepherd scores higher than about every single school when you compare white/black. Shepherd has the highest #1 in white student performance as well as top 3 for black. That is way more than respectable, it’s downright amazing. So if you compare for peer performance, I don’t see how you don’t rank Shepherd as top 3 if not #1.

-no dog in fight[/quote]

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