*Updated
Today, California will release the 2015-2016 CAASPP Scores.
But I have already seen them. Here are three things that stood out.
In Los Angeles Unified, charter schools outperformed traditional schools in both math and English.
To get these numbers, I excluded all continuation schools, special ed schools, community day schools and any other non-traditional schools. I also relied on the California Department of Ed’s record of charter schools.
I also noticed three very successful schools that stood out.
I believe they are 90-90-90 schools (or at least very close). That means they have:
- 90% students living at or near poverty
- 90% students of color
- 90% met or exceeded standards
Those three schools? Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet, Downtown Magnets High School and KIPP Illuminar.
I have highlighted Bravo and Downtown in previous articles with their high UC rates and other amazing quantitative measures. KIPP Illuminar counts, but I have to note, they only test 3rd grade right now, so they have a very small sample size.
The last thing I noticed is about charter networks. Every charter network has some successful schools and some not-so-successful schools. KIPP is a beast, almost all the schools are high performing, but then they have KIPP Philosophers Academy, which performs about as well as LAUSD. Green Dot has clearly struggled with several schools in the West Athens area.
There is a lot more data to dig through, but these are some immediate things that stood out. Stay tuned.
*This article was updated to remove a reference about Aspire Juanita Tate, because upon further analysis, the Aspire Juanita Tate Elementary school grew 27%, the 11th highest growth in all of LAUSD.