Anonymous wrote:Stop being obtuse. If a child actually and truly feared for his or her safety I would expect that parents would have addressed this proactively with a teacher and school administration. Barring that, it's time to find a new school, not wait for the time to fill out a student survey. As only a few disgruntled students can skew results at some schools you need to drill down into the survey results, not accept them at face value.

A lot of parents don't have the resources/wherewithal to move their kids to a different school--there seems to be some correlation between FARMs rates and safety survey results. Education campuses (PK3-8) have worse safety ratings than elementary schools. I wouldn't get concerned if one school had a safety survey rating 5 percentage points below a neighboring school, but there are some really big differences (think 50% vs. 90%) between schools. I wish there was comparable survey results for charters.

Anonymous wrote:IIRC, the safety/order number is based on student satisfaction surveys. I wouldn't put too much stock in what a 10-year old has to say about this topic.

Dear Watkins administrator, please stop reading web forums and get back to work.

Anonymous wrote:IIRC, the safety/order number is based on student satisfaction surveys. I wouldn't put too much stock in what a 10-year old has to say about this topic.

In the case of Watkins, it might reflect incidents where police were involved or a child (or adult) was injured.

Stop being obtuse. If a child actually and truly feared for his or her safety I would expect that parents would have addressed this proactively with a teacher and school administration. Barring that, it's time to find a new school, not wait for the time to fill out a student survey. As only a few disgruntled students can skew results at some schools you need to drill down into the survey results, not accept them at face value.

PP - unless you actually care that your DC fears for their safety at school. Oh how silly of me.

IIRC, the safety/order number is based on student satisfaction surveys. I wouldn't put too much stock in what a 10-year old has to say about this topic.

[quote=Anonymous]I was reading the thread about well-regarded charters versus neighborhood schools. Got me thinking about just how someone evaluates a school and whether it is a good fit for their family. So many different things are important to different people. Decided to take a look at info readily available on DCPS site having to do with ‘unique school indicators.’ Picked school safety and retention of highly rated teachers as things I find interesting – because they are not DCAS scores or demographics – but still important in my book. Safety is described as “student perception of safety and order in the school” on a scale of 1 to 100 as reported by student survey. Retention measures the percentage of teachers rated effective or highly effective who are returning to the school from the previous year. I looked at schools on the Hill; unfortunately charters are not included in the DCPS data. This is what I found:
Payne Watkins Amidon Brent Maury Ludlow-T DCPS Ave.
Safety 75 65 72 86 75 95 70
Retention 94 68 83 92 75 74 83

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Link to safety stats?

OP here, yes DCPS Average

Anonymous wrote:What is the 7th school on your list OP? It says DCPS Ave.?

Not OP, but pretty sure that's DCPS average.

What is the 7th school on your list OP? It says DCPS Ave.?

So glad they updated the school profiles with this information. I haven't looked yet, but student satisfaction survey results were another item in previous years' data.

Yes as current as can be, this is 2013-2014 data posted on dcps.dc.gov under compare schools.

What source did you use to get this info.? Is the info. current?

Unfortunately formatting does not hold in paste, but hopefully you get the picture.

I was reading the thread about well-regarded charters versus neighborhood schools. Got me thinking about just how someone evaluates a school and whether it is a good fit for their family. So many different things are important to different people. Decided to take a look at info readily available on DCPS site having to do with ‘unique school indicators.’ Picked school safety and retention of highly rated teachers as things I find interesting – because they are not DCAS scores or demographics – but still important in my book. Safety is described as “student perception of safety and order in the school” on a scale of 1 to 100 as reported by student survey. Retention measures the percentage of teachers rated effective or highly effective who are returning to the school from the previous year. I looked at schools on the Hill; unfortunately charters are not included in the DCPS data. This is what I found:
Payne Watkins Amidon Brent Maury Ludlow-T DCPS Ave.
Safety 75 65 72 86 75 95 70
Retention 94 68 83 92 75 74 83