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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, as the middle school population grows (or potential middle school population), schools on the rise start to attract other well prepared students from OOB (see the Maury parent comments from earlier). It will take brave and hardworking parents to get the ball rolling, but it sounds like there is a principal at Jefferson willing to work with them.

Also, this is all a bit insulting to current Jefferson students who are proficient/advanced. There is already a cohort.[/quote]

All 15 of them?  [/quote]

Taking this question seriously. I'm not going to look up the exact numbers right now, but if you assume Jefferson is roughly 300 kids and 12% are proficient or advanced, that's 36 kids. Spread over 3 grades, that's 12 per grade. Not a huge number but certainly enough for advanced classes which I know they have in at least math. Brent kids could easily double that. If you want all proficient/advanced kids in your entire class, you are in the wrong neighborhood...[/quote]

I looked it up, by grade. ELA only, which is the better score with 16% proficient or advanced (math is 9%). Of course these kids are all a year older now.

6th - 11 of 97 students; 
7th - 16 of 84 students;
8th - 17 of 96 students.
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Let's not play games.  Of the 9% proficiency in math, which is a low bar, 0% are 5's, meaning "advanced."  So even if we double the proficiency percentage to 18% with this hypothetical cohort of Brent students, that's still damn few who are truly advanced and a pathetic overall proficiency rate.  And what of the optics and other social issues when the overwhelmingly white kids are placed in the "advanced" classes.  Nothing there to worry about.  [/quote]

There are only a small handful of schools with >%15 over 5 and none with >%20 over 5.  Even the best schools are more like in the 15% 5 range.  That seems to be the pattern in math throughout DC but the number of advanced students in struggling schools is eye opening.  Over 1/3 of schools have 0 advanced math students and roughly the same number have 1 or 2 students scoring 5 on math.[/quote]

It seems like you moved the goalposts.  I wasn't raising an issue about there not being 15% of students who are advanced.  Someone made the point that there was enough of a cohort to offer "advanced" classes but the data shows that Jefferson has exactly one student who is a "Level 5" which can be inferred to mean "advanced."  If the suggestion is that proficient students be segregated and tracked then just come out and say that so we can stop pretending that there is a cohort of G+T students at Jefferson.[/quote]

PP bemoaned lack of advanced students among the 9% proficient.  That's a common theme around DCPS (and charters)[/quote]

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