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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are SH's "honors" classes actually on grade level, or are they just really tiny? They don't seem to have that many kids who are proficient, let alone advanced.

They had no proficient 8th graders for math (where I think tracking is most important), and only 18% of 6th graders were proficient--so about 25 kids. Were they placed in a single "honors" section? Were the 2% of kids who were advanced in math (so about 3 kids) given differently targeted work?

Figuring out what SH does could help those of us IB for JA formulate an ask.[/quote]

I wanted to chime in to say something similar. CH families keep saying they want honors classes (or test in middle/high) but they should be more clear in saying they want separate classes for their average kids. For ELA Brent only has 10% of 3rd graders scoring 5s, 17% of 4th. Maury has 6% of 3rd graders, 10% of 4th, and 0 5th. [/quote]

CH families don't all keep saying they want honors classes.  They are hundreds of families with kids of different ages and PARCC scores with different perceptions of what an honors course would entail, all saying different things that they want that often change over time as there own child gets closer to middle school.  There are some posters on DCUM who say that want honors or test-in for middle or high school, but be careful about inferring anything about the larger population of families living in CH.[/quote]

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