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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone that I know that was accepted to school without walls has a 4.0 GPA. My guess is that these kids also have high cape scores. I don’t think adding a test will change the results very much.[/quote]

Wrong.

Most of Walls is BELOW grade level in math, as measured by CAPE scores.[/quote]

The DCPS school profile page shows 68% of students scoring 4 or 5 on the math CAPE test for 23-24. [/quote]

And that doesn’t include the strongest ninth grade students who are in PreCalculus.  So it’s probably closer to 75%.[/quote]

It does include them, actually. After DCUM first noted this glitch in the data, DCPS changed its policy so all 9th graders take a math exam. They take Algebra 2 if they’re enrolled in precalc or calc. You can see the changed policy in the data: for many years at Walls and JR, the number of 9th graders taking any math PARCC was noticeably smaller than the number taking ELA. Starting with the exams given in the spring of 2023, those numbers even out.[/quote]

Kids in PreCalculus in 9th grade don’t take the cape test.[/quote]

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