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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are about 90 kids per grade at Jefferson. If 10 more kids who were on grade level went to Jefferson next year, its 6th grade proficiency rate would rise from 11%/14% (ELA/Math) to 20%/23%. That's basically the same as Stuart-Hobson (6th grade there was 24%/18%)

Hardy was 42%/27% for 6th grade. Getting to that ELA level at Jefferson just through demographic changes would require about 50 more on-grade-level 6th graders...but if you assume as so many Hill families do, that mere proximity to on-grade-level students would help the underperformers, then you don't need that many.

Math is less daunting. To get to Hardy's level of math proficiency, JA would need to attract 16 more 6th graders who are on grade level. Brent has too few 5th graders to see its proficiency rate, but 13% of 5th graders at Tyler and 7% of 5th graders at Amidon were proficient in math. How many of them go to JA already, and how many more could be convinced to do so? How many proficient 5th graders will Van Ness have in a few years, and will any pick JA? And the kids don't just need to be from feeder schools. Will families in Wards 7 and 8 with proficient kids be willing to send kids to JA instead of SH or Hardy or charters? It really doesn't take that many kids to change proficiency levels at JA to match the middle schools that are currently more desired--and Jefferson used to be just as desirable, if not more so, than SH or Hardy.

But getting 10 or 16 or 50 kids who perform on grade level to pick Jefferson is not easy. Nobody want to be the first mover. [/quote]

If Jefferson could guarantee honors class offerings on a par with SH's for starters, your ask would be a lot easier. [/quote]

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