As requested, here's data showing that students who are not poor have lower academic performance at poorer schools. Each point represents one school. Outliers are labelled.
A list of SFUSD elementary schools with average CST scores for non-economically disadvantaged students is at the end. I've ordered it bythe percentage of economically disadvantaged 2nd-5th graders who took the CST at each school. This percentage is slightly different from the percentages for the school enrollment, used in the graphs and previously posted.
Your take: useful or not useful?
Sources:
School CST Scores for Students Who are Not Economically Disadvantaged
Grades 2-5, 2011-2012
School
|
Economically Disadvantaged, as a % of students tested
|
English
|
Math
|
CIS at DeAvila
|
16%
|
414
|
468
|
Miraloma
|
16%
|
404
|
427
|
Clarendon
|
16%
|
423
|
467
|
Grattan
|
18%
|
417
|
447
|
Lilienthal
|
21%
|
405
|
443
|
Creative Arts
|
26%
|
381
|
394
|
Peabody
|
29%
|
418
|
445
|
Sunset
|
30%
|
418
|
452
|
Lafayette
|
30%
|
413
|
461
|
Yu
|
31%
|
408
|
464
|
Feinstein
|
32%
|
401
|
433
|
Rooftop
|
36%
|
404
|
431
|
McKinley
|
38%
|
409
|
427
|
Argonne
|
42%
|
395
|
451
|
Alvarado
|
43%
|
413
|
441
|
New Traditions
|
44%
|
407
|
449
|
West Portal
|
44%
|
402
|
430
|
Alamo
|
45%
|
403
|
449
|
Sherman
|
45%
|
415
|
450
|
King (Starr)
|
45%
|
390
|
447
|
Jefferson
|
47%
|
402
|
449
|
Commodore Sloat
|
48%
|
402
|
419
|
Milk
|
51%
|
405
|
424
|
Key
|
53%
|
398
|
430
|
Lawton
|
54%
|
408
|
460
|
Lakeshore
|
55%
|
366
|
388
|
Sunnyside
|
56%
|
402
|
427
|
Stevenson
|
57%
|
423
|
487
|
Ortega
|
59%
|
379
|
419
|
Fairmount
|
60%
|
387
|
395
|
Yick Wo
|
60%
|
411
|
444
|
Ulloa
|
63%
|
411
|
450
|
Parks
|
65%
|
392
|
421
|
McCoppin
|
66%
|
366
|
378
|
Sutro
|
69%
|
393
|
442
|
SF Community
|
70%
|
375
|
375
|
Flynn
|
72%
|
395
|
406
|
Buena Vista K8
|
72%
|
390
|
420
|
Revere
|
76%
|
384
|
423
|
Carmichael/FEC
|
77%
|
376
|
404
|
Monroe
|
78%
|
404
|
427
|
Garfield
|
78%
|
393
|
421
|
Webster
|
78%
|
344
|
375
|
Longfellow
|
80%
|
382
|
417
|
Guadalupe
|
80%
|
364
|
408
|
El Dorado
|
80%
|
336
|
363
|
Glen Park
|
81%
|
366
|
386
|
Cobb
|
83%
|
327
|
351
|
Edison Charter
|
83%
|
353
|
399
|
Sheridan
|
83%
|
378
|
410
|
Spring Valley
|
84%
|
384
|
401
|
Drew
|
84%
|
319
|
355
|
Taylor
|
84%
|
380
|
448
|
Chin
|
85%
|
463
|
516
|
Carver
|
87%
|
312
|
371
|
Hillcrest
|
88%
|
346
|
368
|
Vis Valley
|
88%
|
359
|
407
|
Marshall
|
88%
|
413
|
453
|
Chavez
|
89%
|
366
|
386
|
Sanchez
|
89%
|
341
|
335
|
Parker
|
89%
|
378
|
396
|
Junipero Serra
|
90%
|
313
|
354
|
Redding
|
90%
|
374
|
394
|
Muir
|
91%
|
365
|
373
|
Lau
|
91%
|
382
|
443
|
Tenderloin
|
92%
|
360
|
386
|
Cleveland
|
92%
|
342
|
365
|
Moscone
|
92%
|
378
|
395
|
Bryant
|
93%
|
294*
|
285*
|
Malcolm X
|
95%
|
321*
|
398*
|
Harte
|
96%
|
306*
|
328*
|
* 10 students or less, take this score with a grain of salt.
Source: http://star.cde.ca.gov/star2012/
I am trying to understand where Creative Arts falls into all of this. I am concerned about the quality of their education and whether we should consider it on our list. We have toured and liked it, but have questions. Can anyone help explain what I am seeing here?
ReplyDeleteCreative Arts is a great example of a school that underperforms its demographics. It's more affluent, whiter, and has more educated parents than SFUSD. Given its demographics, I'd expect it have higher test scores than it does.
ReplyDeleteHere's a few numbers: Looking at Creative Arts 2nd-5th graders who took the CST (STAR) last year, 80% are NOT economically disadvantaged, compared to 39% of SFUSD. In SFUSD, 2nd-5th graders who aren't economically disadvantaged outscored economically disadvantaged ones by about 50 points last year. Creative Arts is 51% white, compared to 15% for SFUSD. White 2nd-5th graders in SFUSD score about 30 points higher than average. 24% of its parents have graduate degrees or post-graduate education, compared to 14% of SFUSD. For SFUSD overall, these students score about 50 points higher.
So yes, I would be concerned. FYI, API will not tell you this information because API isn't adjusted for demographics. STAR test scores are broken down by these categories. You can look this up for any school at
http://star.cde.ca.gov/star2012/SearchPanel.aspx
You need Ritu Khanna.
ReplyDeleteKids in immersion program typically score lower on standardized tests. Much of the economic mixing in this town occurs at school with immersion programs, which is one possible explanation.
We are a high income family at a high poverty, non-immersion school. Having watched the teachers in action for several years now, and having been privvy to data thanks to Ritu (who is f*ing awesome) - well, let's just say that the kids with resources at my school are doing really really well by any test score metric and well, outside of that narrow range, they are doing very well. Other kids at our school, well...the test scores could be a lot better.