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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]

You are right and this metric is fairly specific which makes me wonder if the OP is simply cherry-picking their facts to suit their desired narrative i.e. PARCC Math for 5th graders in two cohorts. It is hardly representative of a school's overall performance. Why not 4th grade English PARCC or a standardized test the state hasn't dumped.[/quote]

I think people were looking at 5th grade math because that's the metric OP used, based on her concerns about her Black child entering Piney Branch. But, let's look at something else. I guess the opposite of 5th grade math is 3rd grade English, right? So here are the scores for that group.

[b]Piney Branch - met and exceeded[/b]

Black - 19%

Hispanic - 25%

[b]Rolling Terrace - met and exceeded[/b]

Black - 19%

Hispanic - 11%

[b]East Silver Spring - met and exceeded[/b]

Black - 43%

Hispanic - 40%

[b]Flora Singer - met and exceeded[/b]

Black - 47%

Hispanic - 17%

None of this is meant to get into a pissing match over which ES is "best" but OP has a very legitimate concern as the parent to a kid of color. The resistance on this thread to acknowledging her concern as legitimate is troubling. [/quote]

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