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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like ES are the ones that were lowered, a few MS. The alternative HS are the ones struggling.

I am guessing the ESs are all Title 1 or near Title 1.[/quote]

This. Most of the HSs received a rating of distinguished, which is great news, and the rest of the traditional HSs received on track. The middle school my son went to got on track despite a 50% FARMS rate. The rest of the schools my kids went/go to are distinguished.

The ES situation looks pretty grim though. [/quote]

But doesn't it say something that when those "grim" elementaries get to middle and high school, things look better? I don't think the current elementary school kids are farther behind than those who were there within the last decade (the current middle and high schoolers). Or do you think those struggling elementary school kids just get lost or are made up for by a larger pool of students in middle and high school? 
TBH, that could be the case in our pyramid. My kids' elementary is "off track" but middle is "on track" and high school is "distinguished". All the other elementary schools in our pyramid are "on track" or "distinguished". [/quote]

It says that eventually those kids drop out of school and are not counted against the other scores. [/quote]

I don’t think the dropout rate is super high in FCPS. I think it’s more that the pool of students is larger in MS/HS and the struggling students are just outnumbered by that point. There are also some kids who are just academic “late bloomers” and do better in the upper grades than the lower grades. [/quote]

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