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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elementary schools where half or more of Black students got a 4+ on CAPE:

Math:
Key
Lafayette
Ross
Hyde-Addison
Bruce-Monroe
Whittier
Brent
Stoddert

ELA:
LAMB
Shepherd
Hyde-Addison
Lafayette
Stoddert
SWS
Oyster-Adams
Ross
Key
Mann
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This is certainly good to note.  Yet, if you're going to parse out demographic groups, if you have a kid from a privileged background and want to know where they will get a good education, it's more useful to look at how white students do because they are more homogeneous.  We all know that there are wealthy as well as impoverished black students, and they're more likely to live in and be highly represented in wealthy neighborhoods' schools.
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I think it's useful to know how non-economically-disadvantaged kids do at a school (and until empower does the math, we only have white as a proxy). But if I were trying to figure out where to send a high-achieving black child, I would also want to pick a school that has a decent number of similar kids. A school where most white kids do well and most black kids do poorly--even if my kid would be the exception to that--would not be my top choice. Too much risk that people would make assumptions about my kid, and I'd want my kid to see students who look like them excelling. [/quote]

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