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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From this thread, TR sounds awful:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1108405.page[/quote]

OP here, is this true that TR is bad? They get great ratings…[/quote]

That's because the bar for ratings is super low. If you control for income and look at the upper grades' test scores, you'll be alarmed.[/quote]

I am  no apologist for TR but you've unintentionally stumbled on one of the challenges of measuring success at TR. So very many kids peel off in 3rd, 4th and then in HUGE quantities in 5th that the demographics of the upper grades are very different than younger grades. [b]To the extent that there are enough to report, the white, non-FARMS scores are on par with other schools dominated by that demo. The problem is that (1) most of the upper ES grades are not like the lower grades or broader TR population and (2) it says very little about TR's ability to succeed when these kids do well on tests.[/b][/quote]

I don't think this is actually true for ELA at TR4, at least. I think it is true for math.[/quote]

https://stossepublicdocsprod.blob.core.windows.net/public-docs/dc-school-report-card/2021-22/profiles/149-1152(Two%20Rivers%20PCS%20-%20Middle%20School).pdf

21-22 data. Two Rivers Middle School (6th-8th) is only 36% at-risk. Only 3% ELLs!  Yet even so, only 32% are on grade level for math, and only 20% are on or above grade level for ELA. Its performance is slightly better than Wells middle school, which has 56% at-risk kids. It's about on par with DC Prep, which has 43% at-risk kids.  So I do not think Two Rivers middle school has particularly good performance relative to its demographics.

If you want to compare to Inspired Teaching, you'd have to use the OSSE PARCC spreadsheets because ITS middle school isn't a separate LEA.  ITS as a whole is onl 17% at-risk, but the middle school is higher for sure, maybe 20-25%, I'm not sure how to find that data. But ITS also posts proficiency scores for grades 6-8 that are far superior to Two Rivers. [/quote]

For some reason that link doesn't work. But you can get to it here: https://osse.dc.gov/dcschoolreportcard/schoolsnapshot  And it's 32% on or above grade level ELA and 20% math, not the other way around.  Sure it's better than various area schools, but relative to demographics it's not impressive at all.[/quote]

13% of the school is white, down from 30 and 27% from the ES that feed it. The MS is 40% more at risk than the ES that feed it.The PARCC scores for the white kids is on par with "good schools". The increase in at risk and changed demographics tells you how many families flee before MS. That is why I say it is a challenge to nail down how well TR does or does not do in upper ES (when demographics change) and MS. [/quote]

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