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Anonymous wrote:Overall comment - there is a lot of data here.

Forget the stars, you can definitely dig in and see how different students are doing on a range of measures.

I like these. They seem helpful.

-parent, no OSSE affiliation

Agreed- this is the best thing I have ever seen out of OSSE.

Is it? It lists Janney as Title I, and a lot of schools have no Kindergarten kids at all.

Eaton is also listed as Title 1 and it says before and aftercare are free. Someone messed up some pretty basic facts on these.

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Anonymous wrote:Overall comment - there is a lot of data here.

Forget the stars, you can definitely dig in and see how different students are doing on a range of measures.

I like these. They seem helpful.

-parent, no OSSE affiliation

Agreed- this is the best thing I have ever seen out of OSSE.

Is it? It lists Janney as Title I, and a lot of schools have no Kindergarten kids at all.

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Deal feeders, at risk %

Janney 5, 0% 88.43, 70.10
Hearst 4, 8% 77.32, 60.95
Murch 4, 5% 79.85, 58.63
Lafayette 4, 3% 78.00, 69.25
Shepherd 4, 15% 71.61, 76.25
Bancroft 4, 31% 80.16, < 10 AA students

PP here. I was interested in how AA students perform at these schools. I've added the Star Framework score for all students, followed by score for black students, for each school.

Overall, it looks like Shepherd has the best score for AA students. However, they don't offer breakdowns for "at-risk" etc. within subgroups, and so it's unclear whether the higher score at Shepherd is attributable to something about instruction, demographic factors, or a combination.

I did this quickly, but hopefully no errors.

Oh, and forgot to add, it's curious why the score for AA students at Shepherd is actually higher than the score for all students--this is the only Deal feeder where that is true. I need to read a fuller description of how these scores were calculated.

Um why do you find that curious? Do you know anything about Shepherd and the families that live in that neighborhood, or do you just assume that all AAs underperform compared to whites?

PP here. I'm black, IB for Shepherd, and was actively involved while my kid attended for several years, so I'm familiar with the student body. The reason I said it's "curious" is because Shepherd is actually 57% OOB, 15% at-risk, and 2% homeless--so it's a very mixed, SES-diverse student body.

This data point would suggest to me that there's something about the instruction at Shepherd that's leading to higher ratings among the black students relative to any other Deal feeder, but I'm interested to hear other possible explanations too.

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Anonymous wrote:Two Ward 5 elementary schools rank the same (3) as the nearby popular charters that siphon off their IB students.

Maybe this will system will help neighborhood schools?

It should, and it should push the charters to do better. Name the schools?

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Deal feeders, at risk %

Janney 5, 0% 88.43, 70.10
Hearst 4, 8% 77.32, 60.95
Murch 4, 5% 79.85, 58.63
Lafayette 4, 3% 78.00, 69.25
Shepherd 4, 15% 71.61, 76.25
Bancroft 4, 31% 80.16, < 10 AA students

PP here. I was interested in how AA students perform at these schools. I've added the Star Framework score for all students, followed by score for black students, for each school.

Overall, it looks like Shepherd has the best score for AA students. However, they don't offer breakdowns for "at-risk" etc. within subgroups, and so it's unclear whether the higher score at Shepherd is attributable to something about instruction, demographic factors, or a combination.

I did this quickly, but hopefully no errors.

Oh, and forgot to add, it's curious why the score for AA students at Shepherd is actually higher than the score for all students--this is the only Deal feeder where that is true. I need to read a fuller description of how these scores were calculated.

Um why do you find that curious? Do you know anything about Shepherd and the families that live in that neighborhood, or do you just assume that all AAs underperform compared to whites?

PP here. I'm black, IB for Shepherd, and was actively involved while my kid attended for several years, so I'm familiar with the student body. The reason I said it's "curious" is because Shepherd is actually 57% OOB, 15% at-risk, and 2% homeless--so it's a very mixed, SES-diverse student body.

This data point would suggest to me that there's something about the instruction at Shepherd that's leading to higher ratings among the black students relative to any other Deal feeder, but I'm interested to hear other possible explanations too.

A couple thoughts - Shepherd has a different curriculum (IB PYP) than the other feeders.

Pure conjecture -- it may also be that AA children, because they are not the minority group at Shepherd the way they are elsewhere, are not subjected to as much implicit bias as happens at schools everywhere when they are the minority.

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Deal feeders, at risk %

Janney 5, 0% 88.43, 70.10
Hearst 4, 8% 77.32, 60.95
Murch 4, 5% 79.85, 58.63
Lafayette 4, 3% 78.00, 69.25
Shepherd 4, 15% 71.61, 76.25
Bancroft 4, 31% 80.16, < 10 AA students

PP here. I was interested in how AA students perform at these schools. I've added the Star Framework score for all students, followed by score for black students, for each school.

Overall, it looks like Shepherd has the best score for AA students. However, they don't offer breakdowns for "at-risk" etc. within subgroups, and so it's unclear whether the higher score at Shepherd is attributable to something about instruction, demographic factors, or a combination.

I did this quickly, but hopefully no errors.

Oh, and forgot to add, it's curious why the score for AA students at Shepherd is actually higher than the score for all students--this is the only Deal feeder where that is true. I need to read a fuller description of how these scores were calculated.

Um why do you find that curious? Do you know anything about Shepherd and the families that live in that neighborhood, or do you just assume that all AAs underperform compared to whites?

PP here. I'm black, IB for Shepherd, and was actively involved while my kid attended for several years, so I'm familiar with the student body. The reason I said it's "curious" is because Shepherd is actually 57% OOB, 15% at-risk, and 2% homeless--so it's a very mixed, SES-diverse student body.

This data point would suggest to me that there's something about the instruction at Shepherd that's leading to higher ratings among the black students relative to any other Deal feeder, but I'm interested to hear other possible explanations too.

A couple thoughts - Shepherd has a different curriculum (IB PYP) than the other feeders.

Pure conjecture -- it may also be that AA children, because they are not the minority group at Shepherd the way they are elsewhere, are not subjected to as much implicit bias as happens at schools everywhere when they are the minority.

Anonymous wrote:Two Ward 5 elementary schools rank the same (3) as the nearby popular charters that siphon off their IB students.

Maybe this will system will help neighborhood schools?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Deal feeders, at risk %

Janney 5, 0% 88.43, 70.10
Hearst 4, 8% 77.32, 60.95
Murch 4, 5% 79.85, 58.63
Lafayette 4, 3% 78.00, 69.25
Shepherd 4, 15% 71.61, 76.25
Bancroft 4, 31% 80.16, < 10 AA students

PP here. I was interested in how AA students perform at these schools. I've added the Star Framework score for all students, followed by score for black students, for each school.

Overall, it looks like Shepherd has the best score for AA students. However, they don't offer breakdowns for "at-risk" etc. within subgroups, and so it's unclear whether the higher score at Shepherd is attributable to something about instruction, demographic factors, or a combination.

I did this quickly, but hopefully no errors.

Oh, and forgot to add, it's curious why the score for AA students at Shepherd is actually higher than the score for all students--this is the only Deal feeder where that is true. I need to read a fuller description of how these scores were calculated.

Um why do you find that curious? Do you know anything about Shepherd and the families that live in that neighborhood, or do you just assume that all AAs underperform compared to whites?

PP here. I'm black, IB for Shepherd, and was actively involved while my kid attended for several years, so I'm familiar with the student body. The reason I said it's "curious" is because Shepherd is actually 57% OOB, 15% at-risk, and 2% homeless--so it's a very mixed, SES-diverse student body.

This data point would suggest to me that there's something about the instruction at Shepherd that's leading to higher ratings among the black students relative to any other Deal feeder, but I'm interested to hear other possible explanations too.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you actually just list all the schools by their scores, instead of seeing them just sorted by star?

And, I'm confused about how the breakdown of the score by demographic is achieved. For our school All Students is higher than the actual score; also various demographics have their own scores but they don't seem to average to All Students - ?

There is weighting involved in the subgroups (e.g. I know that students with disabilities are weighted 2x as much as ELLs or students with disabilities).

For the details you need to dig into the Framework Technical guide https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/2018-19%20DC%20School%20Report%20Card%20and%20STAR%20Framework%20Technical%20Guide.pdf

Wait what? They’re assigning more value to some students?

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Deal feeders, at risk %

Janney 5, 0% 88.43, 70.10
Hearst 4, 8% 77.32, 60.95
Murch 4, 5% 79.85, 58.63
Lafayette 4, 3% 78.00, 69.25
Shepherd 4, 15% 71.61, 76.25
Bancroft 4, 31% 80.16, < 10 AA students

PP here. I was interested in how AA students perform at these schools. I've added the Star Framework score for all students, followed by score for black students, for each school.

Overall, it looks like Shepherd has the best score for AA students. However, they don't offer breakdowns for "at-risk" etc. within subgroups, and so it's unclear whether the higher score at Shepherd is attributable to something about instruction, demographic factors, or a combination.

I did this quickly, but hopefully no errors.

Oh, and forgot to add, it's curious why the score for AA students at Shepherd is actually higher than the score for all students--this is the only Deal feeder where that is true. I need to read a fuller description of how these scores were calculated.

Um why do you find that curious? Do you know anything about Shepherd and the families that live in that neighborhood, or do you just assume that all AAs underperform compared to whites?

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Anonymous wrote:Creative Minds is worse that I expected. Their special needs students actually measure twice as high than school average. White students less than black students and half as well as school average. Is there a school in DC where this is showing? White students perform the same as at risk population.

aren't they a 3

Anonymous wrote:Creative Minds is worse that I expected. Their special needs students actually measure twice as high than school average. White students less than black students and half as well as school average. Is there a school in DC where this is showing? White students perform the same as at risk population.

Anonymous wrote:Creative Minds is worse that I expected. Their special needs students actually measure twice as high than school average. White students less than black students and half as well as school average. Is there a school in DC where this is showing? White students perform the same as at risk population.