Anonymous wrote:Here are the schools where at-risk students are doing the best -- proficiency and most-improved.

https://twitter.com/empowerk12/status/1163480746666930177?s=20

So odd & kind of misleading to combine the ELA/math percentages into one lump %. & I support the generations-long task of teachers/schools/our whole society working to help improve life outcomes for at risk kids & families.

Here's the District's summary: https://dcps.dc.gov/release/number-dc-public-schools-students-ready-college-and-career-grows-fourth-year

The slides are here: https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/release_content/attachments/2019%20PARCC%20Results%20Deck_final.pdf

In almost all the schools I look at, there was a dip last year, and then a recovery this year. Anyone know what the story is with that (if there is one)? Was there a change to the test or something?

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Ross remains #1 in reading for ES with 91% 4+ in ELA.

Kudos to Stoddert who pulled a whopping 88% 4+ in math, up from its #1 status for ES at 82.8% last year! Seems like Stoddert is ahead of other DCPS ES in math (usual caveats about sampling, statistics, etc. apply). Anyone from Stoddert who can explain? Big emphasis on math? Great math teachers there?

Teachers are great, but also, Stoddert in IB school for Russian embassy and correct me if I'm wrong, to Chinese embassy and/or their Residential building.
If it's the Russian and Chinese kids, there's no catching Stoddert in math any time soon.

I think Scott Pearson, who I am not a fan of, put it well today. Turning around performance for at-risk kids is the work of a generation, not a copule years.

FWIW at-risk students city-wide gained 3% in ELA over last year, and held steady in math. Not nearly enough, but surely better than a backslide.

WaPo: "Citywide passing rates for at-risk students — which means they are homeless or in foster care, their families qualify for public assistance, or they have been held back more than a year in high school — increased 2.7 percentage points in English and remained about the same in math."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/19/dc-students-make-steady-gains-english-portion-standardized-exam/

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Anonymous wrote:Creative Minds continues its downward spiral. Not at-risk scores a whopping 41/48 compared to their at-risk population of 14/16.

Their middle school results dragged down the numbers for the elementary. 3rd and 4th grade results are improved over last year, and math scores are really good - not a surprise as the 3rd and 4th grade math teachers last year were wonderful.

Less than half of the non at risk kids passed. Spin it how you wish but don’t blame middle school kids.

I’m blaming the school not the kids. 0% of the 8th graders passed math, but 70% of 4th graders and 60% of 3rd graders passed.

The MS admin was in tatters last year and it shows in these scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Here are the schools where at-risk students are doing the best -- proficiency and most-improved.

https://twitter.com/empowerk12/status/1163480746666930177?s=20

This is only schools that have >50% at risk. There are some that are 30-50% that do well also.

Calling out the schools with 50%+ at-risk doesn't take anything away from the 30-49% group. But it is still notable in light of those on this thread lamenting the lack of progress closing the achievement gap. What I want to know is whether any of the principals at ALL the other schools are visiting and talking in-depth with the principals at these schools. And the teachers. And the parents. What is the difference and can they be replicated elsewhere.

This isn't going to come from the central office, or it would be so watered down as to be meaningless. I'm talking peer to peer outreach.

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Anonymous wrote:LAMB down quite a bit. Mundo is underwhelming as well.

Lee Montessori is also really disappointing. Down overall in ELA, only slightly better in math. But their black performance is really low -- 0 in math and 13% in ELA.

Yikes
Granted PARCC is far from perfect, but is this a model that should be replicated EOTR?

Lee is down in ELA but up in Math from last year. Their scores have never been all that. Wondering why this is news to you?

Shining Stars is significantly down in both.

Is this a group you trust to start a new middle and high school?

News because they were 40% and now they are 25 for ELA. Also, Lee hasn't always had a big enough cohort in PARCC for their scores to be reported. So, yeah, it's news to me that a school that's been approved to replicate doesn't have better performance and isn't sustaining performance. I also narrowly looked just at the PCSB PMF assuming that since they showed up as high performing on the PMF, they were indeed high performing.

Their performance is also startling in light of the comment about EOTP non-charter high schools scraping the barrel bottom with scores in the 0%-3% range. Those schools serves mostly all black students. Lee's performance is the same or lower for black students. So, yeah, a surprise that these are their scores and they are expanding.

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Large EOTP non-charter High Schools scraping the barrel bottom with math scores in the 0% - 3% range.

Ballou: 5% / 2%
Cardoza: 13% / 4%
Dunbar: 16% / 0%
Eastern: 25% / 0%

Why isn't this the #1 story in the city?

Wow.

And incredibly those are the schools with $100M+ flashy new buildings. What a waste, and what incredible levels of corruption and incompetence.

Poor kids.

Anonymous wrote:Here are the schools where at-risk students are doing the best -- proficiency and most-improved.

https://twitter.com/empowerk12/status/1163480746666930177?s=20

This is only schools that have >50% at risk. There are some that are 30-50% that do well also.

^^ Among schools with 50%+ at-risk enrollment.

Here are the schools where at-risk students are doing the best -- proficiency and most-improved.

https://twitter.com/empowerk12/status/1163480746666930177?s=20

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand--how does a school like McKinley, which requires students to score at least 4s on the PARCC to be admitted, have students scoring so at 1s and 2s in PARCC?

They don’t require parcc scores.

Yes, they do. As does Banneker, SWW, Phelps. https://twitter.com/empowerk12/status/1163480746666930177?s=20

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand--how does a school like McKinley, which requires students to score at least 4s on the PARCC to be admitted, have students scoring so at 1s and 2s in PARCC?

They don’t require parcc scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Creative Minds continues its downward spiral. Not at-risk scores a whopping 41/48 compared to their at-risk population of 14/16.

Their middle school results dragged down the numbers for the elementary. 3rd and 4th grade results are improved over last year, and math scores are really good - not a surprise as the 3rd and 4th grade math teachers last year were wonderful.

Less than half of the non at risk kids passed. Spin it how you wish but don’t blame middle school kids.

Anonymous wrote:Creative Minds continues its downward spiral. Not at-risk scores a whopping 41/48 compared to their at-risk population of 14/16.

Their middle school results dragged down the numbers for the elementary. 3rd and 4th grade results are improved over last year, and math scores are really good - not a surprise as the 3rd and 4th grade math teachers last year were wonderful.