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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In addition to Takoma Park/Piney Branch, I would also take a look at these elementary schools:
East Silver Spring
Glen Haven
Highland View
Sligo Creek
Woodlin[/quote]

Some of these schools do not do well on standardized tests for anyone.[/quote]

That is most definitely not true for Sligo Creek and Woodlin.  Can't speak for the other schools.  [/quote]

Yeah, but Sligo Creek and Woodlin are exactly the kind of schools OP isn't interested in. They seem to be serving white students fine, but other students groups are not scoring well there. Equity issues aplenty at both of those schools.

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I think it's really hard to disaggregate races and income in some of these schools. When the only Black kids are also the only kids coming from apartment complexes, those lines get blurred. In my many years as a MCPS parent, I have seen the data that OP is looking for, but I don't know how to access it or what search terms to look for if MCPS has published it.

Basically, each school does have access to a report card that shows how different groups are doing, and that report card does break down "Black and Economically Disadvantaged" and "Black and Not Economically Disadvantaged." It turns out that a lot of schools actually do okay by the kids are Black and Not Economically Disadvantaged, but I have no idea how to find that data for OP. [/quote]

I think you're referring to this data dashboard, which has 2022 as its most recent data:

[url]https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/data/LAR-charts/Equity-Accountability-Model-Achievement.html[/url][/quote]

I'm the PP and yes, that's what I was talking about. I plugged in a handful of the schools suggested in this thread, and Piney Branch, North Chevy Chase, and Flora Singer all do well.

With that said, note that Piney Branch and NCC both have CES programs. It means that Piney Branch keeps all of its strong test takers in-house for 4th and 5th, while the rest of the Blair feeder elementary schools lose their strongest test takers in 4th and 5th. NCC is even more skewed, as it hosts a regional CES program and therefore concentrates the best test takers from that part of the county into one ES. [/quote]

Please cite the exact stats to back up your assertion that Piney Branch does well. The racial achievement gap I saw when I reviewed the data was large. What am I missing? The year my kid was in the CES there, there were no black boys in that class, none. Didn’t look up NCC.[/quote]

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