Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Press+Releases+and+Announcements/Press+Releases/DCPS+Students+Continue+to+Demonstrate+Growth

School Level DC CAS Highlights
Eleven schools, representing nearly all wards in the city, made double-digit gains in math. These schools are Amidon-Bowen Elementary School (10.4), Capitol Hill Montessori (12.9), Drew Elementary School (34.0), Ketcham Elementary School (11.3), Kimball Elementary School (10.6), Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School (15.3), Raymond Education Campus (15.3), Ross Elementary School (13.3), SWW@FS (11.0), Truesdell (14.2) and Whittier Education Campus. (13.3).

Yeah, L-T!!!

GASP! What happened? Ludlow-Taylor is mentioned here, yet no mention of.... MAURY?! Must be a misprint!

Maury parent here, just to disclose my inherent bias. Maury's scores (modest gains) actually make me more confident in the school than L-T's massive jump. A massive jump to me signals some kind of potential instability and/or cheating. Possibly the L-T students just weren't being prepped properly before - that's the most innocent explanation. In any event, I don't think the scores really reflect that much about the learning that goes on in the schools and the learning environment, except for in broad strokes -- e.g., a 30% proficient school is very different from a 80% proficient school. But the difference between 80 and 90 is not all that big.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General school by school available here:

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1238775/2014-dc-cas-scores-by-school.pdf

L-T is labelled as a "Rewards" school. Kicked Watkins' butt.

Forget Watkins. L-T is higher than Brent in math and just a hair's breadth below in reading. Brent is slightly higher in composition and and L-T is slightly higher in science. L-T is doing this with a much higher FARMs population as well.

On overall index score, LTES is now the top-scoring elementary on the Hill. For comparison's sake, LT's overall index score is 81.83, Maury's is 71.73, Brent's is 79.01, Watkins is 65.02, Miner is 32.92, Payne is 35.59, JO Wilson is 54.19, and so on. I know, I know, we aren't supposed to read too much into these scores. But what it tells me, as a parent at Ludlow-Taylor, something good is happening in that school. Committed parents (of all income levels) + skilled teachers = good school.

I'll add that I'm proud of ALL our neighborhood schools on the Hill. Keep it up!

Yeah, as far as I can tell from 2 years at the school, the testing grades are preponderantly FARMs at LT and they are out-testing Brent? So wonderful. Cobbs knows what she's doing and should be congratulated.

Anonymous wrote:General school by school available here:

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1238775/2014-dc-cas-scores-by-school.pdf

L-T is labelled as a "Rewards" school. Kicked Watkins' butt.

Forget Watkins. L-T is higher than Brent in math and just a hair's breadth below in reading. Brent is slightly higher in composition and and L-T is slightly higher in science. L-T is doing this with a much higher FARMs population as well.

Better than Brent's scores or am I misreading? Not surprised, but very pleased!

Damn, those are great scores! Go, LT!

General school by school available here:

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1238775/2014-dc-cas-scores-by-school.pdf

L-T is labelled as a "Rewards" school. Kicked Watkins' butt.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Press+Releases+and+Announcements/Press+Releases/DCPS+Students+Continue+to+Demonstrate+Growth

School Level DC CAS Highlights
Eleven schools, representing nearly all wards in the city, made double-digit gains in math. These schools are Amidon-Bowen Elementary School (10.4), Capitol Hill Montessori (12.9), Drew Elementary School (34.0), Ketcham Elementary School (11.3), Kimball Elementary School (10.6), Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School (15.3), Raymond Education Campus (15.3), Ross Elementary School (13.3), SWW@FS (11.0), Truesdell (14.2) and Whittier Education Campus. (13.3).

Yeah, L-T!!!

Ludlow-Taylor posted a 15.4% increase in math scores. Was the principal there really that bad? Shouldn't people be congratulating her now? Seems like this is a pretty good school after all.

Easy to say it is a pretty good school if you aren't sending your high SES kids to the upper grades there.

This is a stupid statement. PP says it is a pretty good school in part because of decent and rising test scores, and the former principal deserves some credit. Most in the prior thread acknowledged that she hired high quality teachers. So, yes it is easy to say. It may not be your flavor (cough, color) but by metrics that most DCUMers use, it is looking pretty good.

Anonymous wrote:Certainly good news for LT, but what's the point of pitting one school against the other, or one cohort of students against another? Does it make you feel better about yourself? The fact is that no one expects double digit gains at a increasingly majority high-SES school. Gains will be incremental as the demographic continues to change in testing grades.

What's being "pitted"? This is a double-digit gain at an increasingly majority high-SES school.

Ugh. Exactly. Wouldn't it be nice if a rising tide could lift all ships instead of leaving some people in the mud.

Certainly good news for LT, but what's the point of pitting one school against the other, or one cohort of students against another? Does it make you feel better about yourself? The fact is that no one expects double digit gains at a increasingly majority high-SES school. Gains will be incremental as the demographic continues to change in testing grades.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Press+Releases+and+Announcements/Press+Releases/DCPS+Students+Continue+to+Demonstrate+Growth

School Level DC CAS Highlights
Eleven schools, representing nearly all wards in the city, made double-digit gains in math. These schools are Amidon-Bowen Elementary School (10.4), Capitol Hill Montessori (12.9), Drew Elementary School (34.0), Ketcham Elementary School (11.3), Kimball Elementary School (10.6), Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School (15.3), Raymond Education Campus (15.3), Ross Elementary School (13.3), SWW@FS (11.0), Truesdell (14.2) and Whittier Education Campus. (13.3).

Yeah, L-T!!!

Ludlow-Taylor posted a 15.4% increase in math scores. Was the principal there really that bad? Shouldn't people be congratulating her now? Seems like this is a pretty good school after all.

Easy to say it is a pretty good school if you aren't sending your high SES kids to the upper grades there.

Anonymous wrote:
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Press+Releases+and+Announcements/Press+Releases/DCPS+Students+Continue+to+Demonstrate+Growth

School Level DC CAS Highlights
Eleven schools, representing nearly all wards in the city, made double-digit gains in math. These schools are Amidon-Bowen Elementary School (10.4), Capitol Hill Montessori (12.9), Drew Elementary School (34.0), Ketcham Elementary School (11.3), Kimball Elementary School (10.6), Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School (15.3), Raymond Education Campus (15.3), Ross Elementary School (13.3), SWW@FS (11.0), Truesdell (14.2) and Whittier Education Campus. (13.3).

Yeah, L-T!!!

GASP! What happened? Ludlow-Taylor is mentioned here, yet no mention of.... MAURY?! Must be a misprint!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha, I remember in one of the older L-T threads there was a parent who was sure her child wouldn't fit in at Ludlow Taylor because she had her own Mac and they lived in an $800,000 house. I think she also played the violin. It's hilarious to me that all these sheep refuse to send their kids to a decent school down the street because none of the other fancy parents are doing it.

Fancy parents? Ooh la la. Do I count, because my house ran us 800K and I take vacations abroad?

If the school wants to serve our neighborhood (far from clear) more than others, time to get used to those awful elitist neighborhood parents.

BTW, it's not a decent school by the standards of most neighborhood parents, or they'd be the majority, at least in the lower grades.

The elitism isn't in the home value or the hobbies -- it's in thinking a difference in home value & hobbies somehow makes LT a bad fit for your child.

And to me, the question isn't so much whether the neighborhood parents think it's a decent school (some do, some don't) -- it's the criteria they're using. LT is consistently portrayed as inferior to Maury, despite having considerably more kids performing at an advanced level. If you suspect (as I do) that's because Maury has more white kids, then you might fault the portrayer & not the school.

+1000! Well said and very true.

Anonymous wrote:
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Press+Releases+and+Announcements/Press+Releases/DCPS+Students+Continue+to+Demonstrate+Growth

School Level DC CAS Highlights
Eleven schools, representing nearly all wards in the city, made double-digit gains in math. These schools are Amidon-Bowen Elementary School (10.4), Capitol Hill Montessori (12.9), Drew Elementary School (34.0), Ketcham Elementary School (11.3), Kimball Elementary School (10.6), Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School (15.3), Raymond Education Campus (15.3), Ross Elementary School (13.3), SWW@FS (11.0), Truesdell (14.2) and Whittier Education Campus. (13.3).

Yeah, L-T!!!

Thanks for sharing this. Good news about LT, but I'm not surprised.