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Anonymous wrote:I would argue that the scores are consistent (and pretty impressive) across grade levels, except slightly less so for 3rd graders, many of whom may not have the typing skill to perform well on the ELA portion of the exam. Kudos to the school.

Yeah - kudos to the 8th graders on the 'regular' math track.

They lost the great math teacher last year when he moved out of the country. I wouldn't count on current teacher to pull them up as quickly.

That math teacher made me what to take math again! Exceptional. The school attracts great teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:I would argue that the scores are consistent (and pretty impressive) across grade levels, except slightly less so for 3rd graders, many of whom may not have the typing skill to perform well on the ELA portion of the exam. Kudos to the school.

Yeah - kudos to the 8th graders on the 'regular' math track.

They lost the great math teacher last year when he moved out of the country. I wouldn't count on current teacher to pull them up as quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:I would argue that the scores are consistent (and pretty impressive) across grade levels, except slightly less so for 3rd graders, many of whom may not have the typing skill to perform well on the ELA portion of the exam. Kudos to the school.

Yeah - kudos to the 8th graders on the 'regular' math track.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not really tiny, but it is not Deal, but no one I know thinks the size of Deal is something to aspire to!

50 kids per grade at middle is great.

When fewer than half of 6th, 7th and 8th graders are proficient or advanced on PARCC ELA, and even fewer are proficient on PARCC Math .... it makes for a tiny cohort for kids who are at or above grade level.

At around 40% at or above grade level and rising there are a good group of kids in each grade who are doing well academically. Most importantly the school supports them, as well as the kids who are struggling.

Plus, you expect to see a lag in test scores in MS as the ES improves. It takes time for the improvements to "move up" with each class. If the elementary school continues to improve, and more kids stay into MS, then you'd expect to see a stronger MS in a few years. The school has shown strong improvement in PARCC scores in recent years; we're betting that it keeps up.

Look at the testing results by grade (results.osse.dc.gov) before posting. At SWW @ FS the 6th, 7th and 8th graders are already doing better than the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders.

PP should take her own advice before getting too snarky: "Percent of students who met or exceeded expectations for grade-level learning standards in School Without Walls at Francis Stevens in the 2016-17 school year."

GRADES 3, 4 & 5: 37% (ELA) | 47% (Math) | Ave: 42%
GRADES 6, 7, & 8: 49% (ELA) | 24% (Math) | Ave: 37%

Interestingly Math seems to be stronger in the younger grades while ELA is stronger in the middle school years. But overall there are a higher % of students at or above grade level in the elementary school years than in the middle school years and test score are improving year to year.

For a small school you need to look at each grade. It varies a lot. The 8th grade math is deceiving though because some students are taking the Alg 1 exam, but not enough of them to report the scores publicly. The ones who are not in that group didn't do very well on the 8th grade math test.

% met or exceeded expectations (4 or 5)

ELA / Math

3rd 30% / 41%
4th 43% / 57%
5th 39% / 44%

6th 44% / 37%
7th 53% / 32%
8th 50% / 4%

Anonymous wrote:I would argue that the scores are consistent (and pretty impressive) across grade levels, except slightly less so for 3rd graders, many of whom may not have the typing skill to perform well on the ELA portion of the exam. Kudos to the school.