Odds are that if you're kid goes to a bad school, you're a shitty parent. I'm sure the schools that are underachieving are full of yellow and white kids. We used to have the best public school system in the world, that changed after 1965. I wonder why that is?

Most underperforming schools are in high density urban environments and ironically these schools often spent twice per pupil ($12,000 in Washington DC) what is spent in suburban and rural areas ($6000) where very often high levels of academics are achieved.

In some sense, the urbists who have ruined Seattle with their blissfully stupid attempts to turn the place into a "real city" are to blame.

Best for everyone to move east to Richland. Cascades Tunnel with maglev anyone?

Why stop at Richland? Keep on going to Coeur d'Alene--I think you guys will love it there.

Jesus H. Christ, I am getting tired of the ubiquitous race-baiting in Slog comments. I appreciate that the Stranger does not want to over-moderate, but it's getting pretty ridiculous.

http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Dearborn Park Elementary School

Ethnicity
Black - 42%
Asian - 40%
Hispanic - 13%
White - 4%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 1%

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Dunlap Elementary:

http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Black - 50%
Asian - 35%
Hispanic - 11%
White - 2%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 1%

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Emerson Elementary:
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Black - 60%
Asian - 24%
Hispanic - 11%
White - 3%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 2%

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Bailey Gatzert Elementary School:
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Black - 46%
Asian - 23%
Hispanic - 22%
White - 7%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 2%

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Hawthorne Elementary:
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Black - 55%
Asian - 21%
Hispanic - 14%
White - 6%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 5%

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Highland Park Elementary:
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Hispanic - 32%
Asian - 31%
Black - 18%
White - 17%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 3%

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Leschi Elementary:
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Black - 81%
White - 6%
Hispanic - 6%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 4%
Asian - 3%
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Madrone K-8 - stats seemingly unavailable on greatschools.org

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Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Black - 45%
Asian - 41%
Hispanic - 10%
White - 2%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 2%

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Northgate Elementary:
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Hispanic - 39%
Asian - 27%
Black - 19%
White - 12%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 3%
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Roxhill Elementary:
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Hispanic - 37%
Black - 24%
Asian - 23%
White - 14%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 3%

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West Seattle Elementary:
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Black - 34%
Hispanic - 23%
Asian - 22%
White - 17%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 4%

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Cleveland High School
http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/wa/o…

Ethnicity
Black - 55%
Asian - 26%
Hispanic - 10%
White - 6%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 3%
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etc. etc. etc.

@1 In 1965 we discovered what selective statistics were.

This post isn't really up to your normal level of bile. I'm disappointed. You'd been on such a roll.

@4 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4858… will help.

And I wish we had a native ignore or rating system for comments. Let us rate comments on 1-10, and let us set our own option to ignore any people or posts below a threshold of our choosing maybe. It's a pretty basic system these days.

@4, we are only responding with facts to Slog's constant fact-free race-card playing, race-baiting, and incessant excuses for black violent criminals.

First, the district is trying to say this info has never been around before. Nonsense, every school had a narrative with a lot of this info in years past. Please don't give the district too much credit; it's just better organized.

What I found interesting was the difference between what Roosevelt student think in terms of school climate/teaching satisfaction and what their parents think. The parents give both a score in the 80s and the students in the 50s.

This is all just a set-up for charter school legislation to come rolling in so they can declare some schools underperforming and shut them down and make them charters.

What school did you go to, #1, that didn't teach you the difference between "you're" and "your"? Or is that just the fault of shitting parenting?

Jeez Louise.

MLK closed two years ago.

Not all Seattle Public Schools are listed, and the SPS Website has been intentionally designed to not provide an e-mail address point of contact to ask why certain schools do not have reports. "Everyone accountable, just not visible nor accessible."

What this does show is that these numbers shouldn't be used to penalize staff. Clearly, there are socioeconomic and cultural issues at work here (which the bizarre racist comments above don't get us any closer to solving, either). There are great, good, and crappy teachers in every school. If we can get rid of the crappy ones, at least, everyone will be better off and public schools will not lose so many families with energy, talent, and resources to private schools. But the way SPS is using their reams of data will not help us with that. We need an assignment plan that promotes integrated schools (our city is just not as segregated as some are, yet the new plan makes the schools look that way), desirable academic programs at all schools (so that high achievers and wealthier families won't simply move their resources to private schools), and family and student involvement that includes the principal and district LISTENING to which programs and teachers are good and which are not. MGJ and the current John Stanford staff will never do that. We give them a "1." How many more failing years do we have to wait before we can replace THEM?

@14
Amen.