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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There have been violent incidents at EH within the last year. The main concern is whether kids are actually learning any on grade level material. The 8th grade ELA and math scores don’t crack 20% proficiency.
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Do you have a kid there? It’s curious how you dug up this thread after almost 2 weeks of inactivity to post this.

counterpoint: my kid at EH has said he has never seen a “violent incident” whatever that means. He has recounted some fights (that were between white kids fwiw …) It sounds much calmer than I have heard about other MS. I’ve been there at arrival and dismissal and it’s very well controlled. They are very strict on behavior and will remove/suspend/give detention as needed.

AFAIK the most recent 8th grade scores reflect the worst of the post-pandemic year that saw a big narrowing of the class size. But I know kids from that year that went on to HS that anyone here posting would be thrilled about. [/quote]

DCPS puts us in a tough spot giving us one piece of standardized test data to use and compare schools - and 6 months after the fact at that. It wasn't just COVID that impacted things in the past few years at middle schools - at least at EH, part or all of those 3 years the kids were in trailers. Before/during that renovation I think that turned some families off. I wrote this last week before half of this thread was deleted - but I really wish that somehow the schools were able to share iReady or MAP growth at the cohort level to show how many students made 1, 2, or 3 years of growth during any given school year.

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PARCC allows us to compare apples to apples. Elliot Hine wasn’t the only school that experienced the pandemic. That’s not really a great excuse when similar schools, such as SH, have double the proficiency scores. [/quote]

Ok please post here a breakdown comparing the results between SH and EH, stratified by at risk/not at risk, and by race. Then please take a look at the aggregate SH v EH scores and explain how they are meaningfully different. [/quote]

Elliot Hine’s scores are significantly worse:

Proficiency rates for 8th grade at EH:
ELA: 15 of 75 (20%)
Math (8th grade): data suppressed (<5%)
Math (Algebra 1): data suppressed  (<5%)

Proficiency rates for 8th grade at SH:
ELA: 68 of 146 (47%)
Math (8th grade): 6 of 114 (5%)
Math (Algebra 1): 22 of 29 (76%)[/quote]

[b]I asked for the 8th grade data disaggregated by race & at-risk status. [/b]

And what do you make of the aggregated data for all grades being similar between the two schools? Seems to me that EH just had a more difficult 8th grade year but 7th and 8th were better than SH. [/quote]

So if the 95%+ of kids who are not proficient in math at Elliot Hine are a certain race that matters … why?[/quote]

Because the assertion here is that EH is a “bad” school that cannot teach the average DCUM kid (who is white and privileged). The data show otherwise. Don’t pretend that this is all about how much you care about black kids. (FWIW EH has a lot of black kids doing well - but yes, also a lot of kids without the privileges of the average DCUM kid.) [/quote]

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