Anonymous wrote:Has anyone received their test results yet?

I received them from our DCPS elementary this morning.

Anonymous wrote:In terms of ITS - I personally know black kids who were pushed out. And, by the demographics that they themselves report, they have very low percentages of at-risk, special ed or economically disadvantaged kids. 45% white, 38% black. As stated above, their demographics are not at all reflective of the DC public school student population.

This. With all due respect to 8:01, I have the yearbooks, too. While the number of black boys in PK3 and PK4 seems reasonable, as you get into the middle-elementary years, the "diversity" becomes very skewed, and the number of black boys relative to other demographic groups starts to dwindle before picking back up toward the middle school years, as white students start to leave.

Not surprising if you look at the stats. The percentage of black students at ITS who perform at or above grade level is less than half of that for white students for ELA and less than a quarter for math. If you look at the most recent Equity Report, the suspension rate for black students is MORE THAN 6 TIMES HIGHER than for white students.

Not bashing on ITS, but just to point out that it's not the bee's knees for everyone.

In terms of ITS - I personally know black kids who were pushed out. And, by the demographics that they themselves report, they have very low percentages of at-risk, special ed or economically disadvantaged kids. 45% white, 38% black. As stated above, their demographics are not at all reflective of the DC public school student population.

Nothing yet. We are in middle school now and I hope they will send them home.
DC has always done well on Parcc and on other multiple choice tests.
Yesterday he homework about ratios. Some story how many boys are at school vs girls (45 to 50 or whatever) and then come the questions.
Question a.) (requires an answer)
Question b.) (requires an answer)
Question c.) (requires an answer)
Question d.) (requires an answer)
The kid circled "a", wth! He went to school and some other kids had done the same. the teacher had them write:" Not a multiple choice".
Me foreigner, me had never seen multiple choice questions until I arrived in US. Anyhow, time to get involved. I still think his Parcc scores will be 5s. He is just that good at taking that particular test.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone received their test results yet?

Got ours last week. My kid got exactly what I expected.

yup and the kicker is they would have gotten that regardless of where they go to school

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone received their test results yet?

Got ours last week. My kid got exactly what I expected.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone received their test results yet?

Not results yet. We are at Deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Top charters for grades 3-8 in Math and ELA via https://www.dcpcsb.org/evaluating/parcc

ELA (% proficient + advanced)

BASIS MS 72.1 (5-8th)
Washington Latin MS 65.5 (5-8th)
LAMB 59.7 (3-5)
YY 59 (3-5)
ITS 576 (3-8th)
DCI 57 (6-8th)
DC Prep 51.5
KIPP Lead 49.2 (3-5)
KIPP Promise 48.1 (3-5)
KIPP Heights 46.9 (3-5)

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Wow ITS!

Go look at the results and consider economically disadvantaged. Comparing ITS to most of the other schools on this list is insulting. The numbers for ITS should be much higher. They have a student body that mimics Ross - and perform much lower.

As noted above, older kids at ITS don’t have the same demographics as pk3-K. The middle school is very small and nearly 100% minority. My child’s 3rd grade class (probably 70-75% minority) looks very similar to 3rd grade at his cousin’s class at LAMB and god brother at YY and the grades performed the same if not better. So I’m not sure why you wouldn’t show them on the same list as YY or LAMB.

Agree with the first sentence, but the 3rd grade class at ITS is definitely not 70-75% minority. It's as white as, if not whiter than, many of the WOTP schools.

Hmm well looking at the yearbook (and my kid’s current class) tells me a different story. I left a WOTP school partly because my kid was one of only two brown kids in his grade. His AA peers are definitely in the majority. His 3rd grade at ITS last year has 12 AA kids in one class (out of 25) and 13 in the other (out of 25). Not to mention other minority students. 4th grade had 14 AA (out of 25) and 13 (out of 25) in other. 5th grade had 14 (out of 24) and 13 (out of 24). 6th grade had 13 (out of 22). 7th had 15 out of 19. 8th grade had 17 out of 20.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone received their test results yet?

Supposedly, DCPS were instructed to mail them last week. There's no similar guidance given to charters since each is their own LEA - you'll have to ask your charter when they'll be mailing them.

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Anonymous wrote:Overall, ITS is 45% white, 24% economically disadvantaged and 4% ELL. This is NOT a school that is representative of the demographics of DC public schoolchildren.

Not only that, but the lower grades, from PK3 through at least 3rd, are predominantly white, with some black girls, while the middle school is predominantly black. The relatively small number of black boys in some grades, especially 3rd, is startling.

If there were black boys in that cohort in younger grades who left, that would be cause for more concern. But entrance is by lottery and it could be that parents who won the lottery happened to have girls.

Has anyone received their test results yet?

Anonymous wrote:Overall, ITS is 45% white, 24% economically disadvantaged and 4% ELL. This is NOT a school that is representative of the demographics of DC public schoolchildren.

Not only that, but the lower grades, from PK3 through at least 3rd, are predominantly white, with some black girls, while the middle school is predominantly black. The relatively small number of black boys in some grades, especially 3rd, is startling.

Overall, ITS is 45% white, 24% economically disadvantaged and 4% ELL. This is NOT a school that is representative of the demographics of DC public schoolchildren.

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Anonymous wrote:Top charters for grades 3-8 in Math and ELA via https://www.dcpcsb.org/evaluating/parcc

ELA (% proficient + advanced)

BASIS MS 72.1 (5-8th)
Washington Latin MS 65.5 (5-8th)
LAMB 59.7 (3-5)
YY 59 (3-5)
ITS 576 (3-8th)
DCI 57 (6-8th)
DC Prep 51.5
KIPP Lead 49.2 (3-5)
KIPP Promise 48.1 (3-5)
KIPP Heights 46.9 (3-5)

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Wow ITS!

Go look at the results and consider economically disadvantaged. Comparing ITS to most of the other schools on this list is insulting. The numbers for ITS should be much higher. They have a student body that mimics Ross - and perform much lower.

As noted above, older kids at ITS don’t have the same demographics as pk3-K. The middle school is very small and nearly 100% minority. My child’s 3rd grade class (probably 70-75% minority) looks very similar to 3rd grade at his cousin’s class at LAMB and god brother at YY and the grades performed the same if not better. So I’m not sure why you wouldn’t show them on the same list as YY or LAMB.

Agree with the first sentence, but the 3rd grade class at ITS is definitely not 70-75% minority. It's as white as, if not whiter than, many of the WOTP schools.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a study released over the summer that what mattered what not class size, but school size (how many students in the building).

On the whole, smaller schools do better than larger ones. That may help explain Ross as well as the fact that some smaller charter schools do better with at-risk kids than DCPSs which are almost always bigger.

I wish that someone would dig in and try to come up with lessons that can be replicated. Every year we don't we lose another group of kids who fail to graduate with basic skills.

How do you explain Janney?

Not PP, but I think in the case of a school like Janney, where virtually every family is affluent and highly educated, students will still perform well. The real test would be if you took a school like Janney and compared it to a school half the size, but with the same demographics. I'd imagine the performance would be slightly better at the smaller school (although not massively better performance, given ceiling effects).

The study was look at whether smaller schools helped POOR kids. And it does seem to make a difference. Researchers aren't spending a lot of time on kids from wealthy families because they are, and always have, had high graduation and achievement rates.

There are things at a small school that cannot be replicated but I feel would have an impact on learning, for example, the principle and teachers know every student by name. It is like that TV show Cheers.

There is also a very strong "teach to the PARCC test" push from the principal who is very stressed each year about getting better and better PARCC scores. The teacher turn over is similar or lower than DCPS poor performing schools.

Explain teach to the test mentality. What does that look like at Ross?
What is average DCPS turnover rate? How long have the current teachers been at Ross?