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[quote=Anonymous][quote]APS has studied it- but the story is more complicated than that. Here is the most recent study- https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Wo...-Evaluation-Report-Revised.pdf 
the success measures for subjects other than spanish are found starting on page 65. 
Basically- for ELL, the scores in 3rd grade are lower than ELL peers in a non-immersion environment. Those that make it to 8th grade appear to be doing better. 
For those who are native English speakers- the immersion kids outperform non-immersion kids. 
Those that are boosters of immersion take that data and say- look, benefits of bilingual brain, 3rd grade scores no big deal they are learning in two languages - yadayadayada.

Those that are immersion skeptics take that data and say- look, ELL actually do better in non-immersion. Also- that data doesn't account for the tremendous rate of drop out of kids from immersion. Those kids (both native English and native Spanish) who are struggling in school drop out of immersion. The kids that stay are doing well. So of course you would expect the scores to be higher- there is an increasing level of self-selection in the immersion group.[/quote]

Thank you for posting this (I am the poster you were responding to).  This is definitely a more nuanced set of data, for all of the reasons you note.  The most interesting one is the idea that kids who are struggling drop out of immersion.  I know some kids don't make the transition from Key to Gunston because of distance, and others drop out of Gunston and head to Swanson for both academic and social reasons.  I wonder how they end up doing?[/quote]

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