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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

A couple of quick conclusions about Stuart-Hobson:

1. White students perform just as well as SH as at Hardy. SH white scores are pretty comparable to Deal's. (The differences are likely statistically insignificant.) 
2. Nonwhite students perform better at Hardy than at SH (and better still at Deal). (This makes sense.) 
3. SH seems to be trending in the wrong direction *at least according to DCCAS scores. The data are noisy due to small sample sizes, but SH is comparable to Deal in 2008-2009. Since then Deal has improved while SH has languished. Hardy passed SH the following year and has pretty consistently outperformed SH since then. 
4. Like Hardy, the percentage of the school that is white hasn't budged much over the sample period (and remained between 9-13%). 
5. The race gap at SH is large: often 30-40 points difference. Recall, Deal was 15-20, Hardy was 20-30, Wilson was 30-40. 
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I am the PP who had asked if you'd post an analysis about SH.  Thanks so much for doing this.  As someone IB for SH, I wish the results had been a little more encouraging - item 1 certainly is, but items 2, 3 and 5 are discouraging.

Thanks again for taking the time to help so many of us that are trying to figure out MS for our kids.[/quote]

Don't be too upset. First, there may be ready explanations for the "downward" trend. I haven't read any SH threads, so I wouldn't know any institutional detail. Second, Basis and Latin probably really hurt SH. Now that they're harder to get into, that should bode well for SH. (Continuing to lose Brent students to Hardy is more problematic.)

Bottom line, SH is unquestionably the third best DCPS MS. It's not far from Hardy and, like Hardy, could get much better in the future. I think an honest assessment is that SH is a few years behind Hardy. That's not a bad place to be. [/quote]

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