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I posted this awkwardly before so am trying again...

It simply isn't true to say MV test scores are low-ish because it is an immersion school and isn't "west of the Park."  The favorable testing demographics mask what is really a poor performance across each individual demographic.

2019 PARRC scores below versus Bancroft (also a mixed-income, language-immersion school):

AA      passing% 22EL  22 MATH at MV vs.  44/63 at Bancroft
Hisp    passing% 29EL  36 MATH at MV vs. 42/43 at Bancroft
White  passing% 62EL  69 MATH at MV vs  93/93 at Bancroft

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Hey Bancroft, not interested in picking and choosing things.  All we care about is total percentage of kids who are grade level at PARCC (4) for peer group.  We don't care about anything below 4 with PARCC. We also don’t care about ethnic breakdown.  We care about total percentage.  MV (45%/47%) tops Bancroft (34%, 39%) in both ELA and Math by about 10% points.

Lastly, we don’t care about Bancroft numbers anyway because the majority of families looking at MV don’t live IB for Bancroft. The majority live in EOTP schools that are way, way below the scores of MV.

And yes we know you are the vocal poster who does not like MV.  [/quote]

Speak for yourself. As someone who lives EOTP, is a POC, and cares about both academics and Spanish, I think the pp highlights important information. And I think this poster had a child attend MV. I care about the breakdown. [/quote]

Poster is trying to justify to herself the move.

The breakdown isn’t even for kids at competency or grade level.  If you care more about the breakdown then having competency, then you are in the minority. We would all like to have diverse classrooms but not at the expense of a competent peer group.  Hence why many families bail in K - 3rd in many EOTP DCPS schools.[/quote]

If you don't want to acknowledge the data or you don't understand it, that's fine. I tried to break it down for you but you obviously don't want to hear it. But once your kid gets older, you'll likely realize MV's shortcomings. Or maybe you'll live in ignorant bliss. Whatever. But if you are so quick to attack multiple people who have been unimpressed with their real life academic experience at the school, maybe you should think about why you're working so hard to defend the school in the wake of so much contradictory evidence and opinion. I don't know where you're getting your data from, but I got mine here:
http://results.osse.dc.gov/state/DC
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I never said MV was perfect.  You don’t think all the DC schools don’t have problems in the higher grades?  Why do you think many families bail their IB schools?  Its a big problem in DC since there is no tracking.  That problem is that higher achieving kids are not challenged due to the wide academic spread in the classroom.  If there is no tracking then the other best option is to look at peer group performance.

And what I said was that families don’t really care about your school.  They care about comparing their IB school to the options of charters near them and for most, that comparison shows MV has much better PARCC scores and a higher performing cohort at and above grade level.

BTW, DC shows PARCC 3 and 4 because the students do so poorly academically.  Many schools, there is such a small percentage of students at 4 and none at  5.  I could care less about anything below 4 because I’m looking at competency at grade level and above.  Why?  Because I know my kid is going to fall in that range, and I want to know how many other peers he will have at the school.  The more peers, the higher probability that his needs will be addresses.

So here you go.  Easy format where I got my numbers

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0204/student-achievement

https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/171-3065/student-achievement

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