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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is ATS so popular with everyone?  Is it that much better than all the neighborhood schools?[/quote]

ATS gets higher test scores because of the self-selecting nature of the population it serves (children of highly engaged, highly motivated parents).[/quote]

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other schools have lower scores for those with learning disabilities and for those w ith lower incomes. Not ATS. It's an excellent school that focuses on literacy. It's that simple.[/quote]

But ATS also has a lot fewer students with significant learning disabilities who wouldn't have similar outcomes at other schools.  In other words, other schools have (a) more special ed needs and (b) a wider range of special ed needs, not to mention the schools with a lot of special ed students AND ELL students. It makes a difference when you have fewer and a smaller range of demands.[/quote]

ATS and McK have the same percentage of sn kids. Look at the score distribution. ATS tops McK. [/quote]

DP.  There is a wide variety of special needs within the student population.  For a number of reasons, children with more significant needs tend not to go to ATS and are more likely to stay with their neighborhood school.  So even if two schools have roughly the same percentage of children with special needs, that doesn't mean the nature and extent of those needs is the same.[/quote]

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