Anonymous wrote:Anyone have thoughts on how these scores correlate to the scores on GreatSchools? It seems that some schools that have lower rankings on GreatSchools have higher rankings on these scores. Just curious why that might be?

Because they use completely different data sets.

Anyone have thoughts on how these scores correlate to the scores on GreatSchools? It seems that some schools that have lower rankings on GreatSchools have higher rankings on these scores. Just curious why that might be?

Anonymous wrote:So happy that my kids school got a 5! I always thought that Barnsley was great and nice to see them score so well! Principal and staff work so hard and its nice to see the high score!

Please don't assume that the principals and staff don't work hard at lower rated schools. I have friends at 5 star schools who would die if they had to work at my 3 star school. They are used to supportive parents students who come to school regularly and are ready to learn. Heck, many of the students are already at the EOY benchmack on the first day of school. Today, I had 9 students absent out of 22 (normally it is between 7-10) and a 2nd grader throw a chair at me while cursing me out. We had to evacuate the classroom and lost 35 mins of instructional time. And it's on Tuesday!

Interesting to see that Whitman isn't rated a 5.

Anonymous wrote:So happy that my kids school got a 5! I always thought that Barnsley was great and nice to see them score so well! Principal and staff work so hard and its nice to see the high score!

Barnsley has CES which probably helps with the scores. My DC went to HGC there. I think the non CES part of the school is supposed to be pretty good, too, but I think the scores probably do reflect that the center is there.

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Anonymous wrote:Only 2 MS with a 5? that's sad. Not even all of the W MS got a 5. What is up with the MS?

Which MS? Can't get into the darn report.

Try this:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/See-how-MCPS-schools-ranked-by-cluster.pdf

It's actually 3 MS, and of course, all in wealthy clusters:

North Bethesda
Hoover
Pyle

Who requested the report card for the schools? Who did the evaluations?

Anonymous wrote:Is the website down? I cannot seem to be able to view it. It has been loading for like 10 mins.

+1. It's down.

Anonymous wrote:Only 2 MS with a 5? that's sad. Not even all of the W MS got a 5. What is up with the MS?

Which MS? Can't get into the darn report.

Only 2 MS with a 5? that's sad. Not even all of the W MS got a 5. What is up with the MS?

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Anonymous wrote:Bethesda Beat has an article out:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/quarter-of-mcps-schools-receive-top-rank-in-new-state-accountability-model/

Most Montgomery County schools received three or more stars from the state, according to data released by the MSDEA on Tuesday. One school received one star, three received two stars, 39 received three stars, 102 were awarded four stars and 50 were awarded five stars.

It has a good summary chart for the entire state.

Howard County looks better and better.

for now

In a few years it will mirror MCPS.

I doubt it. Only financially stable people can afford to live that remotely with little to no public transport.

Website getting hammered, apparently. Or maybe this is how the State is limiting access to this information.

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Anonymous wrote:The race breakdown is not uniform. My school lists all races but the other school in the neighborhood does only has white, latino, two or more races, special ed. It does not seem accurate.
How does that affect the grade?

To protect student identity, they won't list a data breakdown by any race (or other subgroup) that's below a certain percentage of the school population. (I think 5%, but I forget)

In college I was the only woman in several classes, and I asked my classmates not to mark the gender bubble on student-teacher evals for the same reason.

Thanks for the explanation but what is strange to me is that all the other neighborhood schools have complete breakdowns but this one school does not. All the schools are generally the same diversity wise. I guess it's possible that there is less than 5% Black but I don't think so.

Anonymous wrote:Is the website down? I cannot seem to be able to view it. It has been loading for like 10 mins.

Should have outsourced the website to an offshore company! This is highly technical work that requires a solid STEM education, we just don't have enough qualified people in this country to do this work. Any possiblity to hire some Russian hackers to do this work?

Anonymous wrote:Is the website down? I cannot seem to be able to view it. It has been loading for like 10 mins.

same