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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take Garrison for an example. In the SY 19-20 data file, there are 291 kids at Garrison, 125 of them are IB. There are 503 grade-specific kids living in the boundary. So the school is 43% IB and the participation rate is 25% (rounding).  Students in the boundary attend 81 schools, listed are Meridian, Mundo, Marie Reed, LAMB, Seaton, Cleveland, Hyde-Addison, Yu Ying, and Inspired Teaching.

In the 21-22 data, Garrison has 331 kids-- more than 10% enrollment growth in two years, wow! 138 are IB. There are 456 grade-specific kids living in the boundary (big drop!). So the school is 42% IB and the participation rate is 30%.  So to me this spells improvement. Students living in the boundary attend 78 schools, listed are Meridian, Mundo Verde, Marie Reed, LAMB, and Seaton-- that's all.[/quote]

The “improvement” is pure math. The participation rate “increased” 5% because the the number of kids living in bound decrease. Therefore if you reduced the denominator your result will be higher.[/quote]

No it's not "pure math". Garrison has more total IB kids, and that's true *despite* a smaller pool of potential IB students to draw from. It's a small change so could be random, but it's consistent with improvement. It certainly isn't worse.[/quote]

It is math. It isn’t worse, but is not a big deal as you think it is.[/quote]

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