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[quote=Anonymous]The problem with the DC PARCC Dashboard is that you are comparing all MS and HS students in schools such as BASIS and DCI to all HS students including HS students in selective schools such as Walls and Banneker (this doesn’t affect Latin since for some reason they provide separate scores for MS and HS)  The PARCC scores of a 5th grader at BASIS or Latin, which are both 100% lottery schools, are not going to tell you much about the education at those schools since those kids had just enrolled.  Moreover, it is absurd to compare such a 5th grader to a high school student at Walls and Banneker, who may well have come from BASIS or Latin.  And you are also including 9th grade kids at, say, Walls and Banneker that are being tested just after they entered those schools.  Again, that is not going to tell you much about the education at Walls and Banneker.

A better comparison is to look how kids did on the PARCC in 10th grade.  This is after they have been at BASIS, DCI, and Latin for a while and after they have been at Walls and Banneker for at least a couple of years.

Here are the 4+ 10th grade PARCC scores for the schools above:

[u]BASIS[/u]

ELA 87.5
Math 90.0

[u]Walls[/u]

ELA 93.5
Math 56.0

[u]Banneker
[/u]
ELA 84.09
Math 36.0

[u]Latin[/u]

ELA 71.91
Math &lt;=10.0

[u]DCI[/u]

ELA 45.26
Math suppressed [27.48 in 9th grade]

In short, BASIS is way ahead of other schools in math and Walls, BASIS, and Banneker are about the same for ELA.

Accordingly, if you have an academically inclined kid, you would probably pick BASIS over Latin and DCI for MS and if your kid went to BASIS you would be unlikely to switch in 9th grade to Walls or Banneker for academic reasons, particularly if you were focused on STEM.
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