No surprise.

Last month Youngkin declared 1/2 of 3-8 graders failed or may fail Reading SOL and 2/3 of 3-8 graders failed or may fail Math SOL.

Youngkin’s Solution? Get volunteer parents to teach Reaching and Math.
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/all-in-tutoring


Will Youngkin ask the passing students to teach the failing students next?

Anonymous wrote:OMG. I'm so sick of MAGA trolls.

People who notice changes in FCPS (or lack of changes) = trolls?

Are you sure about that?

Anonymous wrote:OMG. I'm so sick of MAGA trolls.

This forum seems to have become increasingly dominated by them over the past year or so.

OMG. I'm so sick of MAGA trolls.

That is a big drop for Franklin. Even if that website isn’t totally accurate it seems concerning given that’s a much bigger drop than others. My kids are in ES but we’re zoned for Franklin MS. Anyone know what’s going on there?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the VA middle school ranking on school digger, filtering with "Fairfax county, VA".
Among 26 FCPS middle schools on the list, only 6 middle schools' ranking improved. All other 20 schools ranking dropped.

Cooper dropped from 13 to 23
Longfellow dropped from 23 to 38
Forest middle dropped from 19 to 44
Franklin middle dropped from 21 to 85.....

Yes, the pandemic caused learning loss. But it impacted all areas. Now the pandemic is almost over. Other school districts are catching up but FCPS middle schools are still struggling?

Fairfax middle schools are run entirely by a board of far-left progressive democrats, and an equally far left Superintendent.

Academics are not their priority. They have repeatedly and blatantly stated: academics are NOT their priority. They continue to state their main priority is:

Equity.

When you ignore academics, and prioritize equity, our middle schools predictably drop several ranks on academic measures.

If you disagree with the Board’s number one focus on equity, then stop voting for democrats running for the school board. If you continue to elect democrats to the Board, rankings will continue to drop in FCPS.

Isn't promoting equity supposed to improve students performance?

Anonymous wrote:School digger appears to have a very basic ranking system

“SchoolDigger ranks schools by each school's Average Standard Score. The school with the highest Average Standard Score is ranked #1 in the state.”

Basically SOL scores

“ Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish Virginia test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the SOL test scores by the Virginia Department of Education. The most recent update was on Thursday, September 7, 2023.”

Guess I can’t say I’m surprised at the results.

TBH, I am.

That website is impossible to use - it's covered in ads, and the filters don't work well.

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the VA middle school ranking on school digger, filtering with "Fairfax county, VA".
Among 26 FCPS middle schools on the list, only 6 middle schools' ranking improved. All other 20 schools ranking dropped.

Cooper dropped from 13 to 23
Longfellow dropped from 23 to 38
Forest middle dropped from 19 to 44
Franklin middle dropped from 21 to 85.....

Yes, the pandemic caused learning loss. But it impacted all areas. Now the pandemic is almost over. Other school districts are catching up but FCPS middle schools are still struggling?

In highly educated areas the trend is to "opt out" of standardized testing. That counts as a fail for school purposes. If they are basing metrics on that, rankings will drop.

School digger appears to have a very basic ranking system

“SchoolDigger ranks schools by each school's Average Standard Score. The school with the highest Average Standard Score is ranked #1 in the state.”

Basically SOL scores

“ Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish Virginia test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the SOL test scores by the Virginia Department of Education. The most recent update was on Thursday, September 7, 2023.”

Guess I can’t say I’m surprised at the results.

At this point, school rankings have become a marketing scheme run by the real estate industry. This nonsense causes naive buyers to pay absurd prices for incremental differences in schools within a district. All of this means bigger paychecks for the real estate agents and their cronies.

Anonymous wrote:WTF is . . . ?

Nice language.

WTF is “school digger” and why should we care about their ranking?

what is their methodology and has it changed?

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the VA middle school ranking on school digger, filtering with "Fairfax county, VA".
Among 26 FCPS middle schools on the list, only 6 middle schools' ranking improved. All other 20 schools ranking dropped.

Cooper dropped from 13 to 23
Longfellow dropped from 23 to 38
Forest middle dropped from 19 to 44
Franklin middle dropped from 21 to 85.....

Yes, the pandemic caused learning loss. But it impacted all areas. Now the pandemic is almost over. Other school districts are catching up but FCPS middle schools are still struggling?

Fairfax middle schools are run entirely by a board of far-left progressive democrats, and an equally far left Superintendent.

Academics are not their priority. They have repeatedly and blatantly stated: academics are NOT their priority. They continue to state their main priority is:

Equity.

When you ignore academics, and prioritize equity, our middle schools predictably drop several ranks on academic measures.

If you disagree with the Board’s number one focus on equity, then stop voting for democrats running for the school board. If you continue to elect democrats to the Board, rankings will continue to drop in FCPS.

I am looking at the VA middle school ranking on school digger, filtering with "Fairfax county, VA".
Among 26 FCPS middle schools on the list, only 6 middle schools' ranking improved. All other 20 schools ranking dropped.

Cooper dropped from 13 to 23
Longfellow dropped from 23 to 38
Forest middle dropped from 19 to 44
Franklin middle dropped from 21 to 85.....

Yes, the pandemic caused learning loss. But it impacted all areas. Now the pandemic is almost over. Other school districts are catching up but FCPS middle schools are still struggling?