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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS schools in AZ sweep the top spots in most categories. Why does it seem that BASIS DC struggles (attrition, staff turnover, etc.)? How long were the first wave of BASIS schools in Arizona around before they started to garner the current level of acclaim?

Scottsdale was founded in 2003 so D.C. is 9 years behind. . .and only have their first grafuating class this year.

Where is Eastern on the DC list?

It didn't make the ranking. Only the 7 schools listed in first post did -- the rest were just low.

Also I think Eastern is recently reconsituted / reopened and the IB program there is still finding it's legs. It'll still be 1-2 years before it even has any data to qualify, but Jay must have seen something he liked given the recent bit of praise.

The Jay Mathews / WaPo system goes by one year old data. US News uses 2 year old data.

Mathews said Eastern hadn't improved enough to make his 'most challenging' high school list, but he thought the recent IB scores were remarkable / promising.

Ah the soft bigotry of low expectations.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the schools mention have an overwhelming AA school population. Wait, did anyone notice that Friendship is not on the list, didn't they not brag that everyone of their seniors got accepted into college. They also was recognized to have a large percentage of their scholar-athletes get full rides to prestigious universities. Application schools are recognized that have large AA populations, charter school recognized that has a large AA population and a comprehensive school that has diversity. Just pointing out that what is important is hardly needed to be mentioned as one of the best in this city. Prediction, the All-boys high-school will soon be on the list of best high-schools in due time.

All of D.C. High school age is overwhelmingly AA

ding ding ding

Not sure what point these posters are trying to make, but while the majority of DC high school kids are AA, not all schools are majority AA.

According to MySchoolsDC, Wilson is 39.4% AA. SWW is 36% AA.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS schools in AZ sweep the top spots in most categories. Why does it seem that BASIS DC struggles (attrition, staff turnover, etc.)? How long were the first wave of BASIS schools in Arizona around before they started to garner the current level of acclaim?

Scottsdale was founded in 2003 so D.C. is 9 years behind. . .and only have their first grafuating class this year.

Where is Eastern on the DC list?

It didn't make the ranking. Only the 7 schools listed in first post did -- the rest were just low.

Also I think Eastern is recently reconsituted / reopened and the IB program there is still finding it's legs. It'll still be 1-2 years before it even has any data to qualify, but Jay must have seen something he liked given the recent bit of praise.

The Jay Mathews / WaPo system goes by one year old data. US News uses 2 year old data.

Mathews said Eastern hadn't improved enough to make his 'most challenging' high school list, but he thought the recent IB scores were remarkable / promising.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS schools in AZ sweep the top spots in most categories. Why does it seem that BASIS DC struggles (attrition, staff turnover, etc.)? How long were the first wave of BASIS schools in Arizona around before they started to garner the current level of acclaim?

Scottsdale was founded in 2003 so D.C. is 9 years behind. . .and only have their first grafuating class this year.

Where is Eastern on the DC list?

It didn't make the ranking. Only the 7 schools listed in first post did -- the rest were just low.

Also I think Eastern is recently reconsituted / reopened and the IB program there is still finding it's legs. It'll still be 1-2 years before it even has any data to qualify, but Jay must have seen something he liked given the recent bit of praise.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS schools in AZ sweep the top spots in most categories. Why does it seem that BASIS DC struggles (attrition, staff turnover, etc.)? How long were the first wave of BASIS schools in Arizona around before they started to garner the current level of acclaim?

Scottsdale was founded in 2003 so D.C. is 9 years behind. . .and only have their first grafuating class this year.

Where is Eastern on the DC list?

It didn't make the ranking. Only the 7 schools listed in first post did -- the rest were just low.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS schools in AZ sweep the top spots in most categories. Why does it seem that BASIS DC struggles (attrition, staff turnover, etc.)? How long were the first wave of BASIS schools in Arizona around before they started to garner the current level of acclaim?

Scottsdale was founded in 2003 so D.C. is 9 years behind. . .and only have their first grafuating class this year.

Where is Eastern on the DC list?

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that BASIS schools in AZ sweep the top spots in most categories. Why does it seem that BASIS DC struggles (attrition, staff turnover, etc.)? How long were the first wave of BASIS schools in Arizona around before they started to garner the current level of acclaim?

Not saying this is a good or valid ranking.

BASIS DC isn't eligible for this ranking because it hasn't graduated any seniors. The US News and World Report 2017 ratings are 2 years behind for AP and IB scores, and one year behind for PARCC.

I would imagine that when BASIS is eligible, it will turn up somewhere on this list. Their student body is pretty diverse and the kids all must take multiple AP exams to graduate.

FWIW BASIS DC staff turnover is low compared to other BASIS network schools and its student attrition is about the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the schools mention have an overwhelming AA school population. Wait, did anyone notice that Friendship is not on the list, didn't they not brag that everyone of their seniors got accepted into college. They also was recognized to have a large percentage of their scholar-athletes get full rides to prestigious universities. Application schools are recognized that have large AA populations, charter school recognized that has a large AA population and a comprehensive school that has diversity. Just pointing out that what is important is hardly needed to be mentioned as one of the best in this city. Prediction, the All-boys high-school will soon be on the list of best high-schools in due time.

SWW and Wilson do not have overwhelmingly AA populations.

It will be at least 6 years before Ron Brown High School could be eligible for this ranking, given the lag in reporting AP/IB scores.

All of their seniors get into college because they apply for them, write essays for them, etc. I'm not trying to take anything away from the many children who work hard, but I have had personal experience with a Friendship Collegiate child who got into schools he didn't even know he applied to! And when he got to college he floundered because he was so ill-prepared.

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the schools mention have an overwhelming AA school population. Wait, did anyone notice that Friendship is not on the list, didn't they not brag that everyone of their seniors got accepted into college. They also was recognized to have a large percentage of their scholar-athletes get full rides to prestigious universities. Application schools are recognized that have large AA populations, charter school recognized that has a large AA population and a comprehensive school that has diversity. Just pointing out that what is important is hardly needed to be mentioned as one of the best in this city. Prediction, the All-boys high-school will soon be on the list of best high-schools in due time.

Um, is there a DC public high school that isn't????

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the schools mention have an overwhelming AA school population. Wait, did anyone notice that Friendship is not on the list, didn't they not brag that everyone of their seniors got accepted into college. They also was recognized to have a large percentage of their scholar-athletes get full rides to prestigious universities. Application schools are recognized that have large AA populations, charter school recognized that has a large AA population and a comprehensive school that has diversity. Just pointing out that what is important is hardly needed to be mentioned as one of the best in this city. Prediction, the All-boys high-school will soon be on the list of best high-schools in due time.

All of D.C. High school age is overwhelmingly AA

ding ding ding

Interesting that BASIS schools in AZ sweep the top spots in most categories. Why does it seem that BASIS DC struggles (attrition, staff turnover, etc.)? How long were the first wave of BASIS schools in Arizona around before they started to garner the current level of acclaim?

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the schools mention have an overwhelming AA school population. Wait, did anyone notice that Friendship is not on the list, didn't they not brag that everyone of their seniors got accepted into college. They also was recognized to have a large percentage of their scholar-athletes get full rides to prestigious universities. Application schools are recognized that have large AA populations, charter school recognized that has a large AA population and a comprehensive school that has diversity. Just pointing out that what is important is hardly needed to be mentioned as one of the best in this city. Prediction, the All-boys high-school will soon be on the list of best high-schools in due time.

All of D.C. High school age is overwhelmingly AA

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the schools mention have an overwhelming AA school population. Wait, did anyone notice that Friendship is not on the list, didn't they not brag that everyone of their seniors got accepted into college. They also was recognized to have a large percentage of their scholar-athletes get full rides to prestigious universities. Application schools are recognized that have large AA populations, charter school recognized that has a large AA population and a comprehensive school that has diversity. Just pointing out that what is important is hardly needed to be mentioned as one of the best in this city. Prediction, the All-boys high-school will soon be on the list of best high-schools in due time.

SWW and Wilson do not have overwhelmingly AA populations.

It will be at least 6 years before Ron Brown High School could be eligible for this ranking, given the lag in reporting AP/IB scores.

Interesting that the schools mention have an overwhelming AA school population. Wait, did anyone notice that Friendship is not on the list, didn't they not brag that everyone of their seniors got accepted into college. They also was recognized to have a large percentage of their scholar-athletes get full rides to prestigious universities. Application schools are recognized that have large AA populations, charter school recognized that has a large AA population and a comprehensive school that has diversity. Just pointing out that what is important is hardly needed to be mentioned as one of the best in this city. Prediction, the All-boys high-school will soon be on the list of best high-schools in due time.

So we can get this argument out of the way ahead of the Jay Mathews/Wash Post challenge index rankings coming out this weekend. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools

AP/IB data are from 2014-15.

Top DC High Schools

1-SWW
2-Wilson
3-Banneker
4-Ellington
5-McKinley
6-Thurgood Marshall Academy
7-KIPP DC College Prep

Latin is 'nationally recognized' but not ranked.

Methodology:

STEP 1 | Students perform better than expected in their state.
We looked at reading and math results for students on each state's proficiency tests and then factored in the percentage of economically disadvantaged students, who tend to score lower.

STEP 2 | Disadvantaged students perform better than state average.
We compared each school's math and reading proficiency rates for disadvantaged students - black, Hispanic and low-income - with the statewide results for these student groups and then selected schools that were performing better than their state averages.

STEP 3 | Student graduation rates meet or exceed a national standard
We excluded schools from consideration if their graduation rates were lower than 75 percent - a threshold that is higher than a federal law that requires states to give extra resources to schools below 67 percent.

STEP 4 | Students are prepared for college-level coursework.
We calculated a College Readiness Index, which is based on the school's AP participation rate and how well the students did on those tests. Tiebeakers were used to determine ranks of schools that achieved the same College Readiness Index.