<p>momof3: I don’t have a ‘plan.’ I have no idea where the school district is in terms of any metrics. I would like to see some of these to get an idea of where they are and then generate some ideas from there. So my question for this thread was whether some of these data are even gettable, and it sounds like it should be. </p>
<p>Unfortunately the school culture is not supportive of high performing kids and there is low bar for expectations. As I noted, they were actually pretty proud of their 20% of Calc students who got 3 or above in the calc AB class. The killer for me was when my son self studied for BC and got a 5, yet never got a ‘good job’ or ‘congratulations’ from his calc teacher. Calc teacher says he wants to offer BC for kids who want it, but never lifted a finger to help my son. The school seems convinced that they are doing a mighty fine job even though its clear to me that they are not serving their high achievers well.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the counseling office is not very informed or receptive. Again, they think they are doing a fine job. One counselor told a mom to not waste her time with the Common App as “no one uses it.” DS’s counselor told him he could not take SAT II’s until he’d taken SAT I first. And she’s the head of the dept!!!</p>
<p>So I would like to get some numbers and start looking at how I could approach them to maybe try and do better and more.</p>