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Anonymous wrote:What stands out to me is that Janney is not all it's cracked up to be. Sure, it has the highest overall scores, but that is because they have zero minority or low income students testing. If you drill down to white only performance, Janney has 69% on math, a whole 13-15 points below Eaton, Oyster, Stoddert, Yu Ying, even 9-11 points below Watkins and Hearst. In fact, they rank 14 out of 16th of elementary schools with White student performance in math and 6th out of 16th in ELA.

Sorry 13 out of 15 (had Basis in first look) in math and 5 out of 15 in ELA
MATH white
Oyster Adams Bilingual School 84.10%
Stoddert ES 83.50%
Maury ES 83.30%
Washington Yu Ying PCS 83.30%
Eaton ES 82.30%
Watkins ES Capitol Hill Cluster 80.80%
Lafayette ES 80.60%
Hearst ES 78.10%
Murch ES 77.50%
Two Rivers PCS 73.20%
Key ES 72.40%
Mann ES 70.70%
Janney ES 69.40%
Brent ES 65.50%
Hyde Addison ES 63.80%

White ELA

Oyster Adams Bilingual School 85.20%
Two Rivers PCS 83.90%
Eaton ES 83.30%
Mann ES 82.80%
Janney ES 82.60%
Stoddert ES 80.80%
Watkins ES Capitol Hill Cluster 80.80%
Brent ES 80.00%
Lafayette ES 76.80%
Murch ES 76.60%
Washington Yu Ying PCS 76.20%
Maury ES 75.00%
Hyde Addison ES 74.50%
Key ES 73.30%
Hearst ES 71.90%

AVERAGE:
Oyster Adams Bilingual School 84.65%
Eaton ES 82.80%
Stoddert ES 82.15%
Watkins ES Capitol Hill Cluster 80.80%
Washington Yu Ying PCS 79.75%
Maury ES 79.15%
Lafayette ES 78.70%
Two Rivers PCS 78.55%
Murch ES 77.05%
Mann ES 76.75%
Janney ES 76.00%
Hearst ES 75.00%
Key ES 72.85%
Brent ES 72.75%
Hyde Addison ES 69.15%

It's official, Eaton and Stoddert have to be invited in the JKLM club. In fact, they should be the Pres and VP

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Anonymous wrote:DC Prep really stands out.

So does Eaton

Except DC Prep is almost exclusively black. That's the part that stands out.

I was looking at black only performance. Eaton does almost equally well and they aren't known for being as strict/rigorous as DC prep. Not knocking Prep, but giving kudos to Eaton!

Right, but Eaton benefits from 1) the higher SES of the overall school and 2) a large proportion of higher achieving kids. So those things help to lift all boats. Not saying it's not good, but it's apples to oranges with the DC Prep and Kipp populations.

Sure but the other schools WOTP and Shepherd have the same thing (I am AA and IB for Shepherd fwiw) offer the same thing but their AA performance is not as good.

Anonymous wrote:What stands out to me is that Janney is not all it's cracked up to be. Sure, it has the highest overall scores, but that is because they have zero minority or low income students testing. If you drill down to white only performance, Janney has 69% on math, a whole 13-15 points below Eaton, Oyster, Stoddert, Yu Ying, even 9-11 points below Watkins and Hearst. In fact, they rank 14 out of 16th of elementary schools with White student performance in math and 6th out of 16th in ELA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Prep really stands out.

So does Eaton

Except DC Prep is almost exclusively black. That's the part that stands out.

I was looking at black only performance. Eaton does almost equally well and they aren't known for being as strict/rigorous as DC prep. Not knocking Prep, but giving kudos to Eaton!

Right, but Eaton benefits from 1) the higher SES of the overall school and 2) a large proportion of higher achieving kids. So those things help to lift all boats. Not saying it's not good, but it's apples to oranges with the DC Prep and Kipp populations.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Prep really stands out.

So does Eaton

Except DC Prep is almost exclusively black. That's the part that stands out.

I was looking at black only performance. Eaton does almost equally well and they aren't known for being as strict/rigorous as DC prep. Not knocking Prep, but giving kudos to Eaton!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Prep really stands out.

So does Eaton

Except DC Prep is almost exclusively black. That's the part that stands out.

Anonymous wrote:I love these District Measured folks!!
https://public.tableau.com/profile/kevin.lang#!/vizhome/PARCC3through8TestScores-School/Dashboard3

The comparative visual presentation of the percentages is really helpful. You'll find that, for the most part, the math and ELA % match up with some really striking exceptions. The most striking exception is Latin PCS middle school, where the math proficiency is that of a completely different school from its ELA proficiency.

Having said that, let's keep in mind that this was a trial run, schools could be off for any number of reasons, most notably including because they experienced technical problems. In truth, many schools were told that this is a trial run and not to get students wall worked up about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think what PP was saying is that there are studies which show that so long as the high-SES kids make up a certain proportion of the kids (I heard it was 60-70%) they are not "dragged down"; and yet the 30-40% of low SES kids are pulled up.

Thus if your school is 50-60-70% high SES, studies suggest they will do as well academically than if at a 100% high SES school, PLUS they will have the benefit of a diverse student body.

Correct.

This is not an accurate description of the research findings. There is more nuance. Namely, low-performing kids appear to be pulled up. High-performing kids appear to be unaffected (not pulled down). Kids in the middle are pulled down.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Prep really stands out.

So does Eaton

Anonymous wrote:I love these District Measured folks!!
https://public.tableau.com/profile/kevin.lang#!/vizhome/PARCC3through8TestScores-School/Dashboard3

The comparative visual presentation of the percentages is really helpful. You'll find that, for the most part, the math and ELA % match up with some really striking exceptions. The most striking exception is Latin PCS middle school, where the math proficiency is that of a completely different school from its ELA proficiency.

Having said that, let's keep in mind that this was a trial run, schools could be off for any number of reasons, most notably including because they experienced technical problems. In truth, many schools were told that this is a trial run and not to get students wall worked up about it.

Anonymous wrote:DC Prep really stands out.

Seriously? That sounds irresponsible. Do they just assume that 3rd graders will catch up on the target language, and speak it as well as the students who have been in the school since PreK? Do they take ownership of that goal or is it all on the families?

Or is it a little bit of backwards sorting? "No-one who doesn't speak Spanish in the home would be foolish enough to risk their child's education by enrolling him/her several years behind their peers."

YY would probably love to be able to pull off that hat trick.

Anonymous wrote:I love these District Measured folks!!
https://public.tableau.com/profile/kevin.lang#!/vizhome/PARCC3through8TestScores-School/Dashboard3

The comparative visual presentation of the percentages is really helpful. You'll find that, for the most part, the math and ELA % match up with some really striking exceptions. The most striking exception is Latin PCS middle school, where the math proficiency is that of a completely different school from its ELA proficiency.

Having said that, let's keep in mind that this was a trial run, schools could be off for any number of reasons, most notably including because they experienced technical problems. In truth, many schools were told that this is a trial run and not to get students wall worked up about it.