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I don't know, I read a lot of in between posts here. But I agree you should probably give the in betweeners more weight and beware of the super negative or positive on any school. Usually there are both, unless something is seriously wrong at the school in which case you'll get a ton of negative (ahem, SSMA).

What you should do is use detailed feedback from those who clearly attend the school to then ask questions either of the school or of current parents directly.[/quote]

+100. What's notable in this thread is nobody stepping up to validate MV academics.[/quote]

My child doesn’t go to MVP but I can tell you it’s much better than our IB neighborhood school.  The cohort is also much better performing.  And keep in mind that many who post negative comments don’t say where their child goes to school and how it compares to MV.

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Ok, go ahead and pat yourself on the back for scores for high-income kids that are way lower than for similar kids elsewhere in the city.[/quote]

Oh you mean the rich WOTP kids who don’t go to a Spanish language immersion school?  Just like all the different schools you cherry pick to throw out there because you have an agenda or resentment against MV?

It’s actually sad really that you were unlucky in the lottery and can’t be happy for other families.   [/quote]

Not the posters you're referencing but I'll bite with specifics.  I have 7 years of experience at MVP. I moved my youngest to Bancroft for lots of reasons, and many of them are academic related.
MV looks like it performs okay on PAARC because of favorable testing demographics relative to the city as a whole. But when you look closely, each group is fairing poorly, usually doing worse than how that group does on average elsewhere in the city. It is only the total score at MV that looks okay-but-not-great.  Versus Bancroft (also a mixed-income, language-immersion school):

AA      passing% 22EL  22 MATH at MV vs.  44/63 at Bancroft
Hisp    passing% 29EL  36 MATH at MV vs. 42/43 at Bancroft
White  passing% 62EL  69 MATH at MV vs  93/93 at Bancroft

Its not all about standardized tests (I thought MV came up short in other areas too), but that's the easiest thing to compare here.

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