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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's not cool is this goofy new rating system. Where's the credit for 100% in-boundary K classes? Where's the credit for more than 80% in-boundary this school year, up from around 5% in-boundary 20 years ago?  Yes, that's right. No credit.  No good.
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One metric which DC calculates but doesn't disseminate nearly as widely as in-boundary rate (percentage of kids that come from within the school's boundaries) is the "capture rate" of a school (percentage of kids from a school's boundaries that choose to attend that public school). I would argue that focusing on in-boundary rates appears to be (and, for some, may indeed be) exclusionary. A focus on a school's capture rate focuses on the degree to which a geographic community believes their local school will serve their kids' needs. (With the proliferation of charters in the city, I'd posit that its relatively easy for most families, even those with low social capital and/or mobility, to avoid DCPS.) If a school had enough capacity, it could have a very high capture rate while still allowing people from outside the boundaries to attend. (That's a pipe dream for Brent right now, of course.)

All this is to say, some of the PP may be saying "I'm so glad that my neighbors are choosing to attend this local school" rather than "I'm so glad that our school doesn't other people in" when they say they are excited by the high IB rate. Talking about capture rate (Brent's is pretty darn high) is a better way to make that distinction, and I just wish DCPS would put that out there more.

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They put it right on the DCPS school profiles. Maybe instead they should paint it on the school's awnings?

That can't be a metric in a city-wide rating system as it is irrelevant to city-wide DCPS schools, application high schools, DCPS alternative schools and charters.[/quote]

You missed the point. PP is arguing for the use of capture rate rather than IB rate. Capture rate is not on the DCPS profiles.[/quote]

I’d love to see capture rates. That is 100% what I’m interested in. A school like Maury or Ross is always going to have a high IB rate because they’re tiny, whereas a school like Moner is always going to have a lower IB rate because it’s enormous. Now, I’m guessing Maury and Ross (both excellent schools by any measure) are also going to have high capture rates and Miner’s can’t be very good (because they have basically no white students from 2nd grade up in an area with a significant white population), but that’s the figure I’d like to know whether it’s improving. (Just demographic data doesn’t tell the full story, because I don’t care about OOB white kids at ECE and I do care about IB AA kids, e.g.).[/quote]

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