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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On this last one - I bet you could play this out quietly internally to DCPS/OSSE/DME and guess how it'd go.

My guess is that if you took the top 10% of EACH middle school and did a lottery you'd get a more diverse pool by a lot.

(And I'd want it to be that private school kids get in after this, i.e., they get the scraps. But I can't tell whether that's doable.)

If able to get individualized data (never publicly disclosed) you could take a backward looking pool, e.g., 2017 matriculants who were top 10% of GPA from each middle school, then see their school completions, GPAs, and PARCC and other test scores. I think that the top 10% of the worst DCPS middle schools in performance terms are probably quite malleable into top performers with good support. Hopefully historical data backs that up.

I expect that proximity and transportation would limit attendance, and other factors would probably continue to lead to white, high-income, etc., overrepresentation, but it could probably generate a high performing school.

Having talked all this out...you almost imagine that DCPS could do this as a new selective school. First, you do a summer session with the top 10% of 7th and 8th graders invited. I've heard of some states that have a highperforming student 'camp' experience like this. Not sure what grades, where. I bet some of you all know what I'm talking about.  Then if that experience shows that this 'DCPS academic summer camp' resembles a possible school cohort, launch it. Build it somewhere actually accessible. (MacArthur is an accessibility crime.) Like at Phelps or something.

But don't build on SWW or Banneker or Brown or Bard or whatever like this. Have it be its own thing.

Now, I don't think DCPS wouldn't do it unless we had some real demographic pressure. My sense is that that pressure is declining.

But it's an idea. Rather than a rigor/curriculum-based school-building process like BASIS, a cohort-first process.[/quote]

That's really well considered. (I think the influence of ease of commute is often overlooked on these boards). I do find myself wondering if there should be a step (prior to the top whatever percent being moved to a lottery) where the ones below a certain threshold (behind grade level by 1, 2, 3, etc years?) are taken out.

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