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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 out of 4 of the schools in JKLM are still the best in terms of PARCC scores. Key and Janney are in top 5 for both ELA and Math. Ross is too, even though it's not JKLM, so maybe we should change it to JKLR :)
OP, what makes you think they are not sought after?

[b]Average ELA Score by School (Top 60 Schools)[/b]
School Without Walls High School 94.07
Benjamin Banneker High School 88.62
Janney Elementary School 88.19
Ross Elementary School 86.66
Key Elementary School 80.25

[b]Average Math Score by School (Top 60)[/b]
Stoddert Elementary School 83.05
Janney Elementary School 81.57
Lafayette Elementary School 81.36
Ross Elementary School 78.33
Key Elementary School 73.88[/quote]

With exception of magnet high schools at the top, the top scores are simply the richest and whitest schools. When you really break it down at most of the schools, they actually underperform compared to other non-JKLMs. Hint, check out the black student performance at Lafayette. [/quote]

To add…

Empower makes it very easy to drill it down. When looking at top performance for just White students, the rankings are as follows:

Math:
Payne 92%
Hyde Addison 90%
Maury
Banneker 
Tyler 
Stoddert
Murch 
Eliot Hine
SWW
Van Ness
Brent 
Key
Janney 
Deal
Bancroft
Jefferson 
Sojourner Truth
DC Bilingual 
Watkins 
Capital City
Oyster Adams
Inspired Teaching
Marie Reed
Shepherd 
LT
Eaton
Sela
Stokes
Mundo Verde 8th 75%

ELA
Walls 98%
Latin 95%
Deal
Ross
Payne 
Maury
Janney
DC Bilingual 
Bancroft 
Key
LT
Oyster 
Duke Ellington 
Lafayette 
Hardy
SH
Eaton
Two Rivers
McKinley 
Latin Cooper
Stoddert 
Jefferson 
Walls
Basis
Hyde Addison
Eastern 
Latin Middle
Lee
Hearst 
Murch 78%
JR
CHM
DCI
ITS
MV
Tyler 75%
Mann 69%

So again…and I’ve said this for years now, there is no “JKLM” those are just the schools that don’t have black and brown at risk kids that muddy their overall scores so their average 79-80% scores look really good overall but when you compare them citywide they are average at best. [/quote]

These comparisons are a little weird, though — I would certainly hope high schools and middle schools outperform an elementary school on ELA tests, even though I know the scores are comparing like age groups. Am I supposed to be dissatisfied with Janney because its 3rd graders don't score better on reading/writing tests than the sophomores at Walls do on theirs?[/quote]

Not at all. You’re supposed to acknowledge that your kid’s peers at Ross, Payne, DCB, and Bancroft perform the same as your kids at Janney so let’s stop with the “JKLM is the only way to go” rhetoric.[/quote]

I'm the PP you're replying to. I've never said anything about JKLM being the only way to go, and I don't care about PARCC scores. Moving in-bounds to Janney worked out fine for my family; we were never able to get into DCB or Bancroft in the lottery when we lived elsewhere, and our house here was more affordable than buying in-bounds for Ross or Bancroft would have been. While we're telling people what rhetoric to cut out, let's also cut out the assumptions that every single person whose kids go to one of these schools is also a rabid and blind booster of them.[/quote]

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