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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a shame the Empower Dashboard doesn't let you look at non-economically disadvantaged students (it says it does, but the graphs don't show), because that's actually what I'd like to see. Relying on white as an imperfect proxy, for all students in ES specifically, you get a VERY different list than the "top" list above... which really shows how much that list is just demographics driven.

Top 15 ELA:
Shepherd 93
Chisholm 93
Ludlow-Taylor 92
Stoddert 90
Hyde-Addison 90
Maury 88
EL Haynes 86
Payne 86
Oyster-Adams 85
Bancroft 85
Janney 85
Lafayette 84
Murch 84
SWS 83
Mundo Verde - Cook 82

Top 15 Math:
Hearst 93
Lewis 93
Shepherd 90
Lafayette 90
Ross 90
SWS 89
Brent 88
Watkins 97
Maury 87
Stoddert 87
Murch 85
Eaton 85
Garrison 85
Chisholm 81
Ludlow-Taylor 81

One thing I think is interesting about the above list is that lots of these schools are very diverse and so don't do as well "overall." But it seems to me that as a parent what you should care about is how your kid would do and this seems to give the best view of that for UMC families. It's actually encouraging to me that it suggests a diverse set of classmates is not a negative and could be a positive even looking only at test scores. (It semes like it's obviously a positive overall.) The other thing this makes very clear is that DCPSes do much better than Charters for ES when you compare like populations.[/quote]

Totally agree with this. The longer I stay in the DC school system, the less helpful I think this data is for non-at-risk families except to make everyone lottery for the same schools, increasing segregation. [/quote]

The longer I have kids in the system (elementary and middle), the more I think that CAPE is a very limited data point when comparing schools, whose curriculums vary pretty widely. [/quote]

+1. I have kids in middle and high school, and I can now understand why most states did away with this test. Of all the many tests my kids have taken over the years, CAPE/PARCC has been the least accurate in showing whether my kids are meeting or exceeding grade expectations.[/quote]

Interesting. I figured they were pretty reliable because my kid graduated from scoring 5s on CAPE/PARCC to scoring 5s on AP exams. Why do you say the CAPE/PARCC exams are inaccurate? Which exams are better?[/quote]

I am not the PP, but I have found the MAP scores to be much better in telling me about my kid's strengths and weaknesses overall.  DC CAPE is fine but more of a snapshot of where they are on one day than a good look at progress from one year to the next.[/quote]

This has been true for my DS as well. His CAPE/PARCC scores haven't matched his MAP scores or teacher feedback.[/quote]

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