Anonymous wrote:A 1-5 star rating is so vague. If you’re going to rank schools, just go with the percentage ranking. Or at least do 1-10. These stars are basically meaningless.

+100. Meaningless. Some consultants just go paid a bomb to come up with another silly ranking system.

Anonymous wrote:5 Star Elementary

Eaton Elementary School
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
Janney Elementary School
Mann Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Maury Elementary School
Oyster-Adams Bilingual School
SWS
Washington Yu Ying

Not impressed with this list. There are real problems at some of these supposedly 5-star schools. We like SWS, but our children haven't been taught to write effectively there over the years. They can't spell, punctuate or use good grammar there to save their lives in the upper grades, which seems to be the norm at SWS, leaving us to hire writing tutors. We know Maury families who bailed for "lesser" schools to avoid 18 months worth of trailers at miserable Eliot-Hine MS. We know a bunch of YuYing kids in their neighborhood whose spoken Chinese is hopeless after many years of "immersion" study (one of us is a native Mandarin speaker). Janney is super crowded. Lafayette, Murch and Brent didn't make the list, and they're more popular that some schools that did, with 100% in-boundary kindergartens. Etc etc.

You are all obsessed.

Info on my school is totally wrong. This whole report is a mess and should be tossed. What a waste.

Anonymous wrote:SBOE ESSA task force is meeting on Tuesday night. Maybe they will dig into why there was such a quality control failure.

Anyone know why the enrollment by grade doesn’t add up to the total enrollment in the school?

SBOE ESSA task force is meeting on Tuesday night. Maybe they will dig into why there was such a quality control failure.

A 1-5 star rating is so vague. If you’re going to rank schools, just go with the percentage ranking. Or at least do 1-10. These stars are basically meaningless.

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Anonymous wrote:Strong High schools

SWW - 5
Ellington - 4
McKinley Tech - 4
Banneker - 5
Washington Leadership Academy - 5
Capital City HS - 4

Also:
BASIS DC - 5
Wilson - 4

This in incorrect. McKinley Tech has 5 stars.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God what a mess. I see that they are fixing some of the errors now. But how can anyone know whether or not the academic achievement numbers are correct? They still have Janney as a Title I school for crying out loud.

If I were OSSE I'd be so embarrassed. Zero stars.

The Title 1 is SO wrong (like actually about the same as if it was entered randomly) that I wonder if there was some imputing/spreadsheet duck up. There’s no way that anyone told anyone that Brent, Janney and Maury were Title 1, but that an Early Action school like Payne was not.

Janney is Title 1 but rather entitled.

So clever! Five stars.

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Anonymous wrote:Strong High schools

SWW - 5
Ellington - 4
McKinley Tech - 4
Banneker - 5
Washington Leadership Academy - 5
Capital City HS - 4

How is Washington Leadership ranked so high when they haven’t graduated anyone?

Fewer inputs -- and what they have looks pretty good

Decent 4+ PARCC scores 38 ELA/32 Math
Good 3+ PARCC scores 69/72
School is 59% at risk and 89% Black, so those students are performing well in the groups metric
35% of current students have taken an AP exam
Good attendance and re-enrollment

What isn't counted for them - because it can't be yet - is their 4/5 years graduation rate, AP performance and SAT proficiency
And there isn't any data on AP proficiency - could be

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Anonymous wrote:God what a mess. I see that they are fixing some of the errors now. But how can anyone know whether or not the academic achievement numbers are correct? They still have Janney as a Title I school for crying out loud.

If I were OSSE I'd be so embarrassed. Zero stars.

The Title 1 is SO wrong (like actually about the same as if it was entered randomly) that I wonder if there was some imputing/spreadsheet duck up. There’s no way that anyone told anyone that Brent, Janney and Maury were Title 1, but that an Early Action school like Payne was not.

Janney is Title 1 but rather entitled.

LAMB
Mundo Verde
Yu Ying
CMI

I think there was one more like this too that I saw

Three of four of these are language immersion schools, which are very different from traditional monolingual schools.

But also, median growth percentiles play a big role in the overall scores and on these measures the white kids re doing as well or better as their peers in other schools.

Anonymous wrote:Strong High schools

SWW - 5
Ellington - 4
McKinley Tech - 4
Banneker - 5
Washington Leadership Academy - 5
Capital City HS - 4

How is Washington Leadership ranked so high when they haven’t graduated anyone?

Anonymous wrote:God what a mess. I see that they are fixing some of the errors now. But how can anyone know whether or not the academic achievement numbers are correct? They still have Janney as a Title I school for crying out loud.

If I were OSSE I'd be so embarrassed. Zero stars.

The Title 1 is SO wrong (like actually about the same as if it was entered randomly) that I wonder if there was some imputing/spreadsheet duck up. There’s no way that anyone told anyone that Brent, Janney and Maury were Title 1, but that an Early Action school like Payne was not.

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t stay in 3-star hotels and we will not attend a 3-star school.

This report is right on time for those entering the lottery.

Agreed.

Enjoy Center City Brightwood!