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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]East Silver Spring is a much smaller school than most of the others and has about 1/3 as many 5th traders as PB.  That will likely mean more variability in their percentages year to year just because of the quirks of that particular class/group of students.  It also may make it easier to identify and work with the kids on the cusp and prep them individually to do better on PARCC.  I can see why a smaller school would be able to individually target kids for improvement more easily than a much bigger school.  I’m ambivalent about how much one test really shows.  On the one hand it’s good to make data available, on the other hand it’s not a complete picture of any school.[/quote]

I'm the PP who has put kids through both PBES and ESS, and you are right that ESS is smaller and there is more variability. But it would be a mistake to turn the focus of this thread to PBES vs. ESS, because OP has a very valid point. Year to year, consistently, Black kids do worse at Piney Branch than at almost any other school in the area. This despite having an overall richer student population, a more active PTA, and more middle class Black and mixed race families.

This is something that PBES needs to wrestle with, and I sincerely hope they are doing so. OP has a valid concern as a parent to a Black child, and I sure hope someone from PBES is watching this thread and taking it to heart. [/quote]

The statistics they're using show that Black kids do worse on 5th grade math at PBES, but sadly that cohort does poorly at every MCPS school including ESS.[/quote]

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