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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, I'm hoping this thread won't derail into the same Cap Hill middle school drama. Anyone whose kids are at Jefferson right now?  [/quote]

I’m a current parent of a student at Jefferson who came from Brent. My observations so far:

- There is definitely advanced math, with a small set of sixth graders in seventh grade math, and so on.

- For the rest of the core classes (ELA, science, etc.), it appears that higher performing kids are placed in the same cohort together.

Happy to try to answer any specific questions.

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Can anyone say how the advanced Spanish classes are going at Jefferson (geared towards Tyler Spanish immersion students) and what percent of Tyler kids immersion and not immersion went to Jefferson this year? [/quote]

The classes are not advanced in Tyler so doubtful. [/quote]

So you have no idea?[/quote]

Not PP  but if the feeder school kids are weak, why would you think the Spanish classes at Jefferson would be rigorous, especially since it’s a poorly performing school overall where overwhelming majority of kids can’t even master English?

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On what basis are you claiming that Jefferson is “poorly performing.” Are you looking at total PARCC data and nothing else?

On a demographic-adjusted basis, Jefferson actually seems to perform well. And white kids there did extremely well on the latest PARCC, with passage rates exceeding those of white kids at Deal.

In the USNR rankings, Jefferson is the top-ranked public or charter middle school in Ward 6.

Sometimes it takes looking beyond one set of numbers and asking good questions, like PP’s question about Spanish.

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Jefferson is 95% nonwhite.

Yet you conclude that Jefferson "seems to perform well" because the handful of white kids there did "extremely well" on the PARCC test a couple of years ago?

That seems both racist and illogical to me.

In fact, Jefferson's PARCC scores are abysmal, even compared to the rest of DCPS (which are horrible):

[url]https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0433/star-step-3?framework=ms&disaggregation=all_students&lang=en[/url][/quote]

Sigh. Again, you appear to be looking at total data and nothing else.

Jefferson does well when you consider its demographics, as the UNWR analysis report appears to recognize.

One very strong indicator: The Jefferson PARCC scores tend to be better than those of the elementary schools that send many kids there. This shows that Jefferson is improving the performance of the mostly poor kids who arrive there.

Another indicator: Jefferson has about half as many white kids as Eliot-Hine (percentage wise), yet Jefferson’s PARCC results are substantially better than Eliot-Hine’s.

So it’s clearly not just higher-income white kids who are having good outcomes at Jefferson.

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