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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the earlier poster said the % staying on for the feeder middle school is reflective of the overall mix of abilities at the elementary school.  i think once you have over 1/2 the kids staying thats mostly right.[/quote]

No it’s not an overall mix.  It’s the kids who are lower performing mixing in with lower performing kids from other schools.

Just look at math scores.  Almost 1 in 5 kids at Maury above grade level in math.  EH 1 in 50 kids.  That is a huge difference of 10 fold.[/quote]

SY22-23 meeting or exceeding for 4th grade math compared to SY23-24 meeting or exceeding for 5th grade math:

JO Wilson went from 8 to 15 students (16% to 32%)
Ludlow went from 27 to 19 students (50% to 40%)
Maury went from 52 to 29 students (68% to 55%)
Miner went from data suppressed to 6 students  (DS to 15%)
Payne went from 13 to 12 students (34% to 29%)
SWS went from 28 to 9 students (68% to 39%)
Watkins went from 31 to 18 students (41% to 27%)

Note this includes 4s and 5s. 5s alone would include too much data suppression at the individual school/grade level.[/quote]

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the kids who leave after *4th* aren't disproportionately high achievers. Of course they are, Basis is a self-selecting pool and just entering the charter lottery at all tilts a certain way. This thread was talking about the kids who left the feeder pattern after *5th*, since those are the ones the OP's kids would befriend. Those kids, at LT at least, are not disproportionately to high achievers.

But also, look at your numbers. SH is getting 19 kids + 18 kids + 15 kids... That's a pretty big cohort of 52 kids. If 70% of them head to SH, which seems about right across the schools, that's 36ish kids. That's enough for two truly on grade level math classes and math is tracked. Also, the numbers of ELA are even higher and that matters more for the untracked classes.[/quote]

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