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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went over to the Great Schools website to compare how PBES and ESSES stack up for myself, and frankly I don't see a significant difference with regard to how minority students perform on standardized tests. In general, it seems no matter which Montgomery County school you attend demographic groups perform similarly. This supports the earlier notion that this reflects larger societal problems that exist beyond the walls of any one school.[/quote]
Don't look at GS. Look at the Maryland School Report Card at last year's PARCC results.
http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/ParccResults.aspx?PV=71:5:15:0756:3:N:10:13:2:1:4:1:1:2:3

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/ParccResults.aspx?PV=71:4:15:0749:3:N:12:13:1:1:4:1:1:2:3
Poke around with the demographic filters on the site, and you will see some stark differences. For example, at ESS overall, 42.3% of 4th graders met expectations on the PARCC English test. Broken down demographically, 45.5% of white students met expectations, 41.5% of black students did, and 33 percent of Hispanic students did. Compare that to Piney Branch where overall 43.3% of 4th graders met expectations, but 68.2% of white students did, while only 27.9% of Hispanic and 22.2% of black students did. In fifth grade English, 53% of ESS students met expectations and 56.8% of PBES 5th graders met expectations. But at ESS, 58.8% of black students met expectations, compared to 50% of white students. The black students outperformed the white students. At PBES, only 38.2% of black students met expectations on 5th grade English, compared to 75.4% of white students, and 33.3% of hispanic students.  
fifth grade math, at PBES 33.9% of students met expectations overall. - 52% of white students, 20.6% of black students and [b]less that 5% of hispanic students[/b]. At ESS, 30.3% of 5th graders mete expectations overall 30% of white students and 29.4% of black students and 29.4% of Hispanic students.
The differences are not as stark in every grade, but there is clearly something concerning happening. [/quote]

I really really don't want this to become about PBES vs. ESS, or PBES vs. RT.

All are fine schools, with strengths and weaknesses, and are not entirely apples-to-apples comparisons in some ways as well.

PBES has its own HGC and gets the "gifted" out of bounds kids from the TPES program.

RT has the language immersion, which is a double edged sword in that it selects for motivated middle class families but some research indicates it could temporarily depress English Language Arts test scores. It also almost certainly has the most recently arrived Emerging Bilingual (ESOL) kids of perhaps any school in the DCC.

ESS has a learning disabilities magnet, but appears to also have some extra programming for high performing kids, at least according to programs that my friends' kids are being offered that aren't offered at other schools.

So, it's not all apples-to-apples and all of the schools have positives and negatives. All are perfectly fine choices, so I don't want this to turn into yet another chance to piss on lower income schools with a lot of kids of color. 
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