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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High achieving boy who went on to doing very well in a test-in high school: We went with Jefferson and never had any regrets. I'm convinced he'd have done well at Elliot-Hine or Stuart-Hobson. He'd have been fine at Basis, too. The reason he excelled at Jefferson and became the academically strong and well-rounded person he now is is because he had committed and caring teachers who "get" middle schoolers and who worked with him to get him where he wanted and let him own the process. And because it's close by, he was able to pursue sports and scouts, which enriched his pandemic experience. And he had a set of genuine and funny and also some academically strong friends. Had he been in a place like Basis, he'd have become a kid worried and "pressed" about academics. As it stands, he became a caring, well-rounded, and academically strong teenager.[/quote]

Good for your kid.  But I am not sure how you "know" how your kid would have done at other schools.

Looking at PARCC, I certainly agree that there is no comparison between Jefferson and Basis:

Jefferson: 36.6% 4+ ELA, 20.9% 4+ math
Basis: 80.2% 4+ ELA, 64.5% 4+ math[/quote]

The BASIS score is actually much lower than I had expected.[/quote]

These numbers don't exist in a vacuum. It is not an application school so they take all comers. I don't look at a school's PARCC scores to predict whether my kid will get a 4 or 5. I am certain my UMC kid with parents who make them do homework and review tests and quizzes with them is going to score well. What I want to know is what level kids are going to be in class with my kid - are they at grade level? Ahead? Close to grade level? Years behind? How might that inform the academic culture?

My view has always been that if I want to understand how likely my high performing kid is to be in classes with kids years behind on material I need to look at 3+. I'm including Deal for comparison's sake as the universally accepted "best" MS in DCPS system.

96.6% of Basis 8th graders are 3+ for ELA. 
91% of Deal 8th graders for ELA are 3+. 
57.6% of Jefferson 8th graders are 3+.

That means that 4 out of 10 students in 8th at Jefferson "require significant intervention". For math PARCC those scores get worse.

94.4% of Basis are 3+ 
41.3% of Jefferson are 3+
79.6% of Deal are 3+.

So 6 out of 10 students at Jefferson require significant intervention in 8th grade math. Those numbers are slightly better for 6th and 7th at Jefferson.
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