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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I noticed on schooldigger.com this set of rankings.   http://www.schooldigger.com/go/DC/schoolrank.aspx

Looks like Ross is really doing well.   Any insight into how they're doing it that could be replicated in other schools?

Well done, Ross![/quote]

OP, it is unfortunately extremely simple and cannot be replicated by intention, though it may be, and is being, replicated via the same demographic shifts in other neighborhoods.

In DC, test scores are highly correlated with family income and education. Dupont Circle has nearly 0% poverty. Expensive real estate, no homeless shelters. Formerly when the school was not doing as well it was because it had a high percentage of OOB students who weren't doing as well. At some point IB interest was piqued, and the school quickly "flipped" as the all-IB early childhood classes moved up through the years and the OOB percentage dropped. They also had a good principal during those years (now at HD Cooke?) but the demographics can take most of the credit.

This also happened at Brent.

This cannot and will not happen so quickly or at all in neighborhoods with a lot of affordable apartments or homeless shelters, even when those neighborhoods are seeing rapid appreciation in the price of market-rate real estate.

Sorry if this is very blunt, not politically correct, and sorry if this is bad news, OP.

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What is really unfortunate is your inaccuracy. You are incorrect on many points. You need to do more research, really basic information is just wrong.
1) 0% poverty? Then why is their FARM rate at about 28%?
2) Quickly flipped sounds like real estate and flipping a house/condo is done in several months. This is not the case. If you look at their scores, they have progressly gone up over the last 4 years. Mathematics 2011-71% 2012-73% 2013-79% 2014-92% Reading 2011-72% 2012-65% 2013-83% 2014-90%
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/DCPS+Data/DCPS+Data+Sets
3) The 'good principal' you are referring to (Searl) is still there and has been there for 5 years. Your HD Cooke principal (Larkin) was at Ross until 2012 but was not the principal.
4) At Ross there is no achievement gap, again check the data.
5) For what it's worth, the success at Ross is simple. I think it is high quality, hard work by all those involved: teachers, students, parents, PTA, and so on. One person cannot change everything.[/quote]

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