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SWS outperformed both of them on PARCC last year[/quote]

I think SWS is a bit of an anomaly. The PARCC scores are indeed impressive. But please recall that last year there was no 5th grade so the testing results only include 3 & 4 results. For both Maury and Brent, the 5th grade scores tend to bring down the scores considerably.[/quote]

I don't know. . . there's a big drop off for 5th grade at each of these schools. If you look at 3rd and 4th grade scores exclusively the same more or less holds true.

3rd ELA/M (4+)
B 57/67
M 50/50
S 72/62

4th ELA/M (4+)
B 70/60
M 45/43
S 60/65

This is, unfortunately, mostly about the racial breakdown of the schools. The stats for comparable cohorts are very similar. For instance, white kids AND black kids at L-T do better than at Maury, but Maury has a higher average SOLELY due to the demographics of the schools.[/quote]

Not arguing about the SWS scores, but I question whether your last statement is accurate. If you look at Maury's scores broken out by ethnicity, you have a 78% meet or exceed for both ELA and Math. This is very comparable to SWS which has an 80/82. Are you trying to suggest that L-T has a higher score than this for the white population? I doubt that is likely, but since the testing group is too small a sample the results aren't broken out that way.  For sure the black population at L-T does better than the black population at Maury, though. And I do find that impressive.[/quote]

I'm PP who posted about SWS and the scores are really beside the point.  Different PP dismissed SWS as not being relevent in Hill MS landscape due to lottery and it's very much relevant.  It's high scores only demonstrate that it can boost Ward 6 MS IB and proficiency rates, along with any number of other successful Hill schools.[/quote]

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