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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The 2021-22 AP/IB performance numbers are in the OSSE school report cards for the individual schools. [url]https://osse.dc.gov/dcschoolreportcard[/url]. They include charters. And they’re broken down by race. The schools with a 90% pass rate or better for white students are Basis, Walls, DCI, Banneker, and Latin. [/quote]

Not sure where you are getting that.

If you look at white students, Basis is at 94%, Walls 93%; Latin and DCI are just below 90%; and Banneker has too few white students to provide a percentage.

Plus, just looking at white students is misleading given how diverse the above schools are.[/quote]

When I follow the link, I get a white AP/IB [i]performance[/i] number at Banneker and DCI of &gt;=90%. There are too few students to report an AP/IB [i]participation[/i] rate at Banneker. At DCI the [i]participation[/i] rate is reported as 89.47%. Are you sure you’re looking at the right number? (The performance number at Latin is technically just under 90% but it’s over 89.5 so I rounded up.)

And I agree, it’s not like only white students matter. But OSSE doesn’t give us data based on parents’ education or middle school, two factors beyond the control of any high school that are strongly associated with AP/IB performance. Since the white population of DC is not very socioeconomically diverse, it’s a decent proxy for students from college-educated homes who attended decent middle schools.[/quote]

It should not matter what the education level or SES of the families are. [/quote]

You're right, it shouldn't. But anyone who's spent 10 seconds paying attention knows SES makes a huge difference (in average, of course) in all educational outcomes. [/quote]
You need to spend more than 10 seconds thinking about this. The research is very clear that it is the education level of the parents that drives educational outcomes for kids. Of course, parents who are highly educated tend to make more money but the causality for student educational outcomes is parental education level. [/quote]

The “socio” part of socioeconomic includes education level. Anyway the point is that virtually all white adults in DC have college degrees, and no other demographic group tracked by OSSE is anywhere near so uniform in terms of parental education. So if you want to know about the outcomes at a particular school for students whose parents have college degrees, the OSSE data for white students is a pretty good proxy. Just bear in mind that you’re using a proxy stat, and there are a lot of non-white adults in DC with college degrees, too.

And yes, parents’ education level [i]shouldn’t[/i] matter to AP/IB pass rate, but it does. In fact I suspect that the reason the College Board prefers to report 3+ data, rather than the 4+ data everyone here would prefer to see, is that there’s an even stronger correlation for 4+.[/quote]

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