Anonymous
09/12/2025 21:44
Subject: Re:Walls Versus DCI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The DCI boosters are working overtime, as usual....
What boosting? The discussion is based on facts and data of AP pass rate.
Feel free to share the AP pre calculus and calculus pass rate at Walls. Oh wait, someone said DCPS doesn’t share this…..
DCI thinking it is in the same league as Walls is like the Commanders thinking they are going to beat down the Packers.
No one said anything about that. But it is obvious that DCI can serve the top math students and serve them well.
You can’t say that about Walls if you can’t provide the data.
BTW a parent from Walls posted above that their AP math scores are good but then did not post any data when posters on here asked.
You cannot get pass rates at a specific DCPS school. A Walls admin or Walls teacher would have to share that info. I’m honestly surprised DCI shares it for specific courses because it can become very identifiable in some cases.
It is identifiable if only a few kids pass or gets a high score.
But if you have a 1 or 2 classes of advance course offerings and a high pass rate, then many kids are getting 3,4, and 5’s and it is not identifiable.
The issue is that so little kids in the DCPS system as a whole even pass and very few get high scores .
At a school like Walls it might be the opposite. If you only have a class of 25 kids taking an AP and one kid gets a 1, that is very identifiable. And there are many APs at the school with only one class.
Anonymous
09/12/2025 20:58
Subject: Re:Walls Versus DCI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The DCI boosters are working overtime, as usual....
What boosting? The discussion is based on facts and data of AP pass rate.
Feel free to share the AP pre calculus and calculus pass rate at Walls. Oh wait, someone said DCPS doesn’t share this…..
DCI thinking it is in the same league as Walls is like the Commanders thinking they are going to beat down the Packers.
No one said anything about that. But it is obvious that DCI can serve the top math students and serve them well.
You can’t say that about Walls if you can’t provide the data.
BTW a parent from Walls posted above that their AP math scores are good but then did not post any data when posters on here asked.
You cannot get pass rates at a specific DCPS school. A Walls admin or Walls teacher would have to share that info. I’m honestly surprised DCI shares it for specific courses because it can become very identifiable in some cases.
It is identifiable if only a few kids pass or gets a high score.
But if you have a 1 or 2 classes of advance course offerings and a high pass rate, then many kids are getting 3,4, and 5’s and it is not identifiable.
The issue is that so little kids in the DCPS system as a whole even pass and very few get high scores .
Anonymous
09/12/2025 20:08
Subject: Re:Walls Versus DCI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The DCI boosters are working overtime, as usual....
What boosting? The discussion is based on facts and data of AP pass rate.
Feel free to share the AP pre calculus and calculus pass rate at Walls. Oh wait, someone said DCPS doesn’t share this…..
DCI thinking it is in the same league as Walls is like the Commanders thinking they are going to beat down the Packers.
No one said anything about that. But it is obvious that DCI can serve the top math students and serve them well.
You can’t say that about Walls if you can’t provide the data.
BTW a parent from Walls posted above that their AP math scores are good but then did not post any data when posters on here asked.
You cannot get pass rates at a specific DCPS school. A Walls admin or Walls teacher would have to share that info. I’m honestly surprised DCI shares it for specific courses because it can become very identifiable in some cases.
This tells you 3 or higher at the school level. Probably too identifiable to do cross tabs.
https://dcps.dc.gov/publication/ap-score-data-sets
But even that doesn’t quite describe what people are asking about. That is a table of kids who got at least one 3,4 or 5 on an AP. Walls has kids taking four or five APs by junior and senior year. All we know is that 91% of kids get a minimum of 3 on one test.
None of that is helpful or useful data to determine math or science AP scores.
Anonymous
09/12/2025 19:12
Subject: Re:Walls Versus DCI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The DCI boosters are working overtime, as usual....
What boosting? The discussion is based on facts and data of AP pass rate.
Feel free to share the AP pre calculus and calculus pass rate at Walls. Oh wait, someone said DCPS doesn’t share this…..
DCI thinking it is in the same league as Walls is like the Commanders thinking they are going to beat down the Packers.
No one said anything about that. But it is obvious that DCI can serve the top math students and serve them well.
You can’t say that about Walls if you can’t provide the data.
BTW a parent from Walls posted above that their AP math scores are good but then did not post any data when posters on here asked.
You cannot get pass rates at a specific DCPS school. A Walls admin or Walls teacher would have to share that info. I’m honestly surprised DCI shares it for specific courses because it can become very identifiable in some cases.
This tells you 3 or higher at the school level. Probably too identifiable to do cross tabs.
https://dcps.dc.gov/publication/ap-score-data-sets
Anonymous
09/12/2025 17:53
Subject: Re:Walls Versus DCI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The DCI boosters are working overtime, as usual....
What boosting? The discussion is based on facts and data of AP pass rate.
Feel free to share the AP pre calculus and calculus pass rate at Walls. Oh wait, someone said DCPS doesn’t share this…..
DCI thinking it is in the same league as Walls is like the Commanders thinking they are going to beat down the Packers.
No one said anything about that. But it is obvious that DCI can serve the top math students and serve them well.
You can’t say that about Walls if you can’t provide the data.
BTW a parent from Walls posted above that their AP math scores are good but then did not post any data when posters on here asked.
You cannot get pass rates at a specific DCPS school. A Walls admin or Walls teacher would have to share that info. I’m honestly surprised DCI shares it for specific courses because it can become very identifiable in some cases.
Anonymous
09/12/2025 17:52
Subject: Walls Versus DCI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCI has a stronger math track. If your kid is an elite math student, dci is a better fit. You can take AP pre-Calc as a freshman, AP calc as a sophomore, and then go into HL IB math as a junior and senior.
The language element of dci is head and shoulders better than walls.
If your kid is good at stem stuff and speaks a bunch of languages, DCI is a better choice. That said most people won’t fit into that bucket.
Also admissions at walls get weaker each year. I would rather my kid be around motivated kids in the IB track than kids who managed good grades at some mediocre dcps. I find the lack of standardized testing really worrisome for Wall’s future.
Either way you can’t go wrong.
Languages are stronger at DCI.
Walls offers similar math options as above.
A lot depends on what your kid plans to do for a career and actual level of math they'll need.
Does Walls allow students to take AP PreCalc in 9th grade now? Last I checked you were forced into Honors PreCalc.
Forced is a bit of a dramatic word. Thr school only started offering AP PreCalc this year. And yes 9th graders can take it.
By the way AP Precalc is a money grab from College Board. Precalc is not a college course in any serious sense.
Anonymous
09/12/2025 16:09
Subject: Re:Walls Versus DCI
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The DCI boosters are working overtime, as usual....
What boosting? The discussion is based on facts and data of AP pass rate.
Feel free to share the AP pre calculus and calculus pass rate at Walls. Oh wait, someone said DCPS doesn’t share this…..
DCI thinking it is in the same league as Walls is like the Commanders thinking they are going to beat down the Packers.
No one said anything about that. But it is obvious that DCI can serve the top math students and serve them well.
You can’t say that about Walls if you can’t provide the data.
BTW a parent from Walls posted above that their AP math scores are good but then did not post any data when posters on here asked.
Does anyone seriously doubt that Walls (and BASIS) are the two best public high schools in the city?