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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look people, it’s not that hard.  [b]Just ignore everything and look at overall test scores for the school.[/b]  The percentage of kids testing at grade level and the percentage of kids testing above grade level.

DC manipulates the data to give more weight to at risk kids, etc… so that these poorly performing schools “look” better than they are.  Just ignore that and look directly at test scores.[/quote]

I agree with this. I've been in the system for 9 years/2 kids and played the lottery twice, and each time I ordered the list and made a choice based on which school had the highest percentage of kids getting 4s and 5s on ELA, Math and Science. Ended up very satisfied and impressed. [/quote]

Look at overall test scores but also look at growth scores and the scores for the demographic that represents your kid. There is a data file on the OSSE site where you can see the performance of students by grade level and subject but also by race, not-economically disadvantaged, etc. I have found that high scores and high/moderate growth are both important.[/quote]

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