Reply to US News Elementary Rankings

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "US News Elementary Rankings - Ross #1"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is their explanation of the methodology: [url]https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings
[/url]

50% due to math/reading scores and 50% math/reading scores adjusted for underrepresented minorities (lumped together) + % of students receiving free lunch.

For DCPS at title 1 schools the % receiving free lunch gets inflated for schools where then number exceeds a threshold (e.g. 40% -&gt; 100%). This may explain in part why DCPS title 1 schools did a bit better in rankings than otherwise would have been expected. Hard to say how much this &quot;error&quot; matters.

Overall it's a really interesting undertaking and definitely adds another perspective. I also don't think populations of underrepresented minorities have the same SES in DC in different neighborhoods. URM WOTP are probably a lot higher SES than URM EOTR.[/quote]

BMPV parent here. That’s helpful, thank you. It can’t be that heavily ranked because BMPV and Powell have pretty much identical demographics and Powell is 40 places lower on the ranking. The main quantifiable difference is test scores, so I’d assume that’s what accounts for the very different rankings (per this methodology).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics