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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet, despite only taking families who enter a lottery, and having all the advantages you mentioned, and an easier time kicking kids out, the charter schools you mentioned aren't that different in terms of test scores.

White kids do the best at SH, then DCI, then Latin.

Black kids do the best in DCI, then Latin, then SH.

Latino it's SH, Latin, DCI.

At risk it's SH and DCI, with Latin worse.

In all of these, the differences are somewhat negligible. Clearly if you want language immersion DCI makes sense and if you want to avoid Eastern and don't think your kid will make it into a selective DCPS it feels good to be done through 12th grade with Latin (though in that scenario does your kid really need advanced middle school classes?). But test score wise, there's really no argument that your kid will have a significantly stronger middle school cohort at DCI or Latin than SH. Richer? Whiter? yeah. But academically pretty similar.[/quote]

What are you taking about?  No, it’s not negligible.  Look at the PARCC scores from above posters and ELA there is 11-12% difference and math 100%.  That’s huge.  There are no scores we can see with social studies, science, languages, writing, etc...

You think just comparing ELA works for middle school?  I won’t even begin to discuss behavior issues, teachers expectations, curriculum, etc...

Huge difference between the 3.[/quote]

Do Deal and Hardy have tracked science and social studies classes? I get that BASIS creates cohorts by weeding out kids who can't handle the work, and Latin is small, and sufficiently UMC/white for those parents to think they are leveled cohorts. But DCPS to DCPS?[/quote]

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