Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Elementary level, ACPS students with disabilities have a reading proficiency of 27% and a math proficiency of 20%.

Barrett reading proficiency is 35%, math is 37%
George Mason reading is 15%, math is 8% (no wonder everyone is fleeing this school)
Polk reading is 15%, math is 21%
Jeff-Houston reading is 22%, math is 15%
Ramsey reading is 16%, math is 8%
MacArthur reading is 19%, math is 15%
Brooks reading is 29%, math is 29%
Cora Kelly reading is 13%, math is 22%
Lyles Crouch reading is 58%, math is 58%
John Adams reading is 37%, math is 30%
Mount Vernon reading is 54%, math is 22%

Wow, I looked up George Mason and I think that's the first school I've ever seen where the white kids are scoring 9/10 while the rest of the poor students are scoring 1/10. That's worse than JH which is saying something. What's going on there?

It's not a good situation. Two weak principals in a row are part of it. The last principal, Mr. Orremaa chased off a number of high quality teachers because he was a terrible manager. Teachers refuse to help struggling students in the name of equity and an administration that supports their actions is another part. The math instruction is particularly weak. There is no homework for the most part so parents don't have the full picture of what their children are learning or their proficiency in subjects. For many years the UMC parents who did realize or couldn't deny that their kids were struggling hired private tutors.

GM would be an ideal school to try to re-create the Lyles Crouch model. The school really has no where to go but up. It's small (just over 300) and getting smaller. The principal recently revealed that their enrollment numbers are dropping again next year and they are losing another two classrooms, she claimed this is the similar at other elementary schools but that simply isn't true. No other school has lost and is losing students at the rate of GM. It's failing and so many families have left and continue to leave.

But ACPS and the School Board are talking about turning it into a K-8 when they start building the new one next year. It would be a smart move to re-district the GM population to better schools that are under capacity (MacArthur and Cora Kelly have space) and make the new GM a new middle school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Elementary level, ACPS students with disabilities have a reading proficiency of 27% and a math proficiency of 20%.

Barrett reading proficiency is 35%, math is 37%
George Mason reading is 15%, math is 8% (no wonder everyone is fleeing this school)
Polk reading is 15%, math is 21%
Jeff-Houston reading is 22%, math is 15%
Ramsey reading is 16%, math is 8%
MacArthur reading is 19%, math is 15%
Brooks reading is 29%, math is 29%
Cora Kelly reading is 13%, math is 22%
Lyles Crouch reading is 58%, math is 58%
John Adams reading is 37%, math is 30%
Mount Vernon reading is 54%, math is 22%

Wow, I looked up George Mason and I think that's the first school I've ever seen where the white kids are scoring 9/10 while the rest of the poor students are scoring 1/10. That's worse than JH which is saying something. What's going on there?

If ACPS was serious about equity, they would be modeling every ES on Lyles-Crouch. This is how you know equity is just a word to them and they aren't data and results driven.

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Surrounding districts have much higher proficiency levels for students with disabilities than ACPS

Fairfax is 52% for reading, 47% math
Loudoun is 50% for reading, 45% math
Arlington is 52% for reading, 45% math

Do these figures identify which of these students are both EL and SWD? ACPS has an incredibly diverse student body. A student with a disability who is also learning English is probably going to be less proficient. — former teacher

No. As a percentage of student body, 11% of ACPS Students are SWD, Fairfax is 16%, Loudoun is 11% and Arlington is 15%.

I don't think it's fair to pin ACPS extremely poor performance on ELL. I hear that all the time from UMC parents as the reason their kids are doing great but the school is performing poorly. It's has more than a hint of racism, privilege and classism.

One only needs to look at the data from LC to see that ELL doesn't have to mean such a large barrier to proficiency the way it is at the other ES. And yes, LC has a smaller ELL population than some of the other schools BUT the population v. proficiency percentages don't track.

Surrounding districts have much higher proficiency levels for students with disabilities than ACPS

Fairfax is 52% for reading, 47% math
Loudoun is 50% for reading, 45% math
Arlington is 52% for reading, 45% math

Do these figures identify which of these students are both EL and SWD? ACPS has an incredibly diverse student body. A student with a disability who is also learning English is probably going to be less proficient. — former teacher

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Elementary level, ACPS students with disabilities have a reading proficiency of 27% and a math proficiency of 20%.

Barrett reading proficiency is 35%, math is 37%
George Mason reading is 15%, math is 8% (no wonder everyone is fleeing this school)
Polk reading is 15%, math is 21%
Jeff-Houston reading is 22%, math is 15%
Ramsey reading is 16%, math is 8%
MacArthur reading is 19%, math is 15%
Brooks reading is 29%, math is 29%
Cora Kelly reading is 13%, math is 22%
Lyles Crouch reading is 58%, math is 58%
John Adams reading is 37%, math is 30%
Mount Vernon reading is 54%, math is 22%

Am I missing Tucker, or was it left out? Thank you for posting these stats.

Tucker is 29% reading, 14% math
FT day is 12% reading, 0% math (I guess george mason isn't the worst)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the Elementary level, ACPS students with disabilities have a reading proficiency of 27% and a math proficiency of 20%.

Barrett reading proficiency is 35%, math is 37%
George Mason reading is 15%, math is 8% (no wonder everyone is fleeing this school)
Polk reading is 15%, math is 21%
Jeff-Houston reading is 22%, math is 15%
Ramsey reading is 16%, math is 8%
MacArthur reading is 19%, math is 15%
Brooks reading is 29%, math is 29%
Cora Kelly reading is 13%, math is 22%
Lyles Crouch reading is 58%, math is 58%
John Adams reading is 37%, math is 30%
Mount Vernon reading is 54%, math is 22%

Am I missing Tucker, or was it left out? Thank you for posting these stats.

Anonymous wrote:At the Elementary level, ACPS students with disabilities have a reading proficiency of 27% and a math proficiency of 20%.

Surrounding districts have much higher proficiency levels for students with disabilities than ACPS

Fairfax is 52% for reading, 47% math
Loudoun is 50% for reading, 45% math
Arlington is 52% for reading, 45% math

It's good to hear about people's experiences but data doesn't hire private tutors & passionately defend the school board and central office to get special treatment and attention.