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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing to special about Basis.  The school just happened to be populated by students who were proficient/advanced students from other schools.  Ask any parent who enrolled their student at Basis from Watkins, SH, LT, or any other school whether their child was proficient/advanced prior to Basis, and the answer is likely to be yes.  A true test of Basis is how well they move students from basic to proficient/advanced.  From what I hear, parents are asked to find another school if their child can't cut it.  What is left is essentially the cream of the crop.  Saying that Basis is extraordinary because test scores are high is like claiming Harvard is great because the have a lot of students who score high on the SAT/ACT.  To put it in local terms, look at the DC-CAS results for Banneker.  No doubt Banneker graduates the most academically prepared students from DCPS.  However, Banneker only accepts proficient and advanced students.  Despite the quality of education and caliber of rigor at Banneker, you be hard pressed to find white parents willing to consider Banneker as an option for their DC.[/quote]
Oh, for god's sake. The people at Basis wouldn't consider it if it didn't provide a unique service. Basis provides badly needed acceleration and challenge, no matter what it's detractors say, and it has proven itself. I'm sorry if it threatens your school, but Basis is here to stay, and is extraordinary because of its achievements, challenge, and help in educating kids who would be ignored in DCPS. [/quote]

There is a statistic that OSSE computes, the Median Growth Percentile, which claims to capture the individual student growth.  This tells how well the school raises the achievement of each student rather.  It attempts to isolate the teaching quality of the school and capture how well teachers are able to advance their students regardless of where the student starts in their classroom.

Basis does not show any MGP numbers this year.  Deal's MGP is impressive.

Median Growth Percentile (Math)
Deal 57          Basis -        Latin 48         Hardy  45.5

Median Growth Percentile (Reading)
Deal 60          Basis -        Latin 51         Hardy 48

It is a shame that OSSE doesn't provide a download capability or a spreadsheet with all the numbers and breakdowns by subgroups.[/quote]

Interesting...  BASIS is too new to have those stats.  I'd have to go back and look at last year but I thought Latin did slightly better than BASIS - but now BASIS is doing better than Latin?[/quote]

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