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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If the racial achievement gap indicated at the three schools is “doing well” relative to MCPS then this is shameful.[/quote]

This gets to the problem highlighted above - the numbers you are citing put all Black kids together, and ELLs and kids receiving FARMS are disproportionately Black and brown.

[b]So, it doesn't tell OP information that is useful to her, which is which schools are breaking down the racial achievement gap that persists even for middle-class English speaking Black kids. Some schools do better than others, but the data is harder to find. That's why the Focus Groups model linked by another PP is useful. Here it is: https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/data/LAR-charts/Equity-Accountability-Model-Achievement.html

So we see that at Piney Branch, non-FARMS white and Asian kids get 3/4 in the rankings, meaning that 70-89% of kids in that demographic met the target for proficiency. Non-FARMS Black and Hispanic kids *also* get a 3/4. Now, that doesn't tell us the exact proportion, but it does tell us that non-FARMS Black kids do about as well at Piney Branch as non-FARMS white kids, and that's useful information to OP.[/b]

Contrast that with Rock Creek Forest, where white/Asian non-FARMS kids get 3 in ELA and 4 in math, but Black non-FARMS kids get a 2 in both. That's a school where Black kids are under-performing compared to their white and Asian peers, even when you manage to (kind of) control for income.

OP here... yesssssss. This. Thank you!

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