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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dramatic much? Catastrophic decline? Hardly.[/quote]

The decline does look bad, PP.

The percentage of kids scoring Advanced in reading and math at Latin MS increased dramatically in 2010, but has been on the decline ever since.

What caused the large increase in 2010?  Was there a surge in middle class enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year?  Is that the year Deal stopped taking kids zoned for Hardy?  Is there another reason?

Anyway, since 2010, the number of kids scoring Advanced at Latin MS has been on the decline.  This decline is not due to the departure of bright kids, though, at least not entirely.  The median growth percentile has also been on the decline at Latin MS since 2010:

Year -- Reading MGP -- Math MGP
2011 -- 63.5% -- 52.2%
2012 -- 56.9% -- 44.8%
2013 -- 46.0% -- 46.0%
2014 -- 42.8% -- 39.8%

The MGP data point to a multi-year trend of Advanced kids falling behind at Latin MS.  Why is this happening?[/quote]

What was really interesting is that [b]all[b] of the tier I schools I looked at, including Deal, had this huge spike in scores in 2010.  Then the question became who kept hold  of it, who moved forward, and who sank back down.

I started this thread and I am not sending a kid to Hardy.  I hope very much to get one kid into Latin.  
But I am concerned.

I only looked at the Tier I schools so I am not sure if the spike was universal, but if you compare it to say Washington Latin High School, where when our oldest was considering Latin back in the dark ages we were warned that so many peeled off to privates in 9th it would not solve our financial problems, if you look at their graph, they are slow and steady improvement.  Deal has that spike in 2010 and then stays in the stratosphere.

But no Tier I school falls back down.  And I found the focus info on another thread.  As the announcement said, x # of schools have been Tier I since they opened (Washington Latin MS until now included, the high school since it opened maintaining its status and getting better every year as more people stay), and once these schools make it they don't tend to fall back down.  There was some mention of EL Haynes on another thread having once been Tier I and now being Tier 2 but I can't find that info.

I think I have seen some of the nastiest snobbiest posts from Latin parents here in my entire time on DCUM and I find that very discouraging as well.  Laughing at a parent who has sent children to both schools - are you kidding me? [/quote]

Interesting "dark ages" comment.  Not sure what the PP is referring too.  However, around 2010 quite a few high SES AA parents stopped sending the sons to Latin and began not considering applying due to the stereotyping that was occurring at the school (including comments made by Board members).  This community started looking at Deal for which we are inbound and other schools both private and charter.  It has developed the reputation in this community as only being a school that you can send your child if you can be present in the school on a daily or almost constant basis.[/quote]

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