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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading these posts makes one concerned whether the school prepares its students or the future. What makes it so different from Brent and Ludlow Taylor on the hill or the other schools listed before that makes some wonder about whether it prepares kids for advanced math and other subjects? Aren't the teachers just as qualified and the kids just as motivated? Don't kids come from around the city, though it doesn't seem that diverse beyond special ed?[/quote]

I don't know why you'd be "concerned" about that. Brent has fewer kids on free and reduced lunch and less than half the % of kids in special ed but its test scores are virtually identical to those of SWS. Ludlow Taylor has very different demographics and much lower test scores so I'm not sure why you'd compare those.[/quote]

You do realize that [b]most of the special ed kids (not all, just most) are in the two medically fragile classrooms in the basement[/b]? Those kids aren't taking any standardized tests.  So that's why the scores are the same - you can't compare the special ed kids at brent to those at sws (unless you had some way of pulling out test scores of kids w/ IEPs for ASD or OHI as opposed to the kids w/ multiple disabilities, but you can't)[/quote]

^^that's not a correct statement and ignores the high functioning autism program.  You don't realize the number of children with IEPs because it's a privacy issue.[/quote]

The number of students at each school with IEPs is reported publicly by OSSE at learndc.org

Most recent public data shows SWS has 289 total students, and 20% have IEPS (~57 kids).

Of that group of 57, 69% are Level 1 or Level 2 -- these kids would not be a medically fragile classroom -- the level correlates to the number of hours of specialized instruction they receive (1 being least, 4 being highest). 11.9% are Level 3 and 27% are Level 4.

For schools with more than 25 students with IEPs taking the PARCC, the scores are broken out. SWS doesn't have enough students with IEPs in 3rd or 4th to report out.

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