Taking A Deep Dive Into the College Board’s New Adversity Score

comptechmom
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 13:56:52 +0000

@EllieMom Completely Agree. Our City has our Magnet schools in the worst parts of town. It’s open to all students in the surrounding area as a regular school but has a Magnet program for those who wish to do the 1.x hour commute for those living on the other side of the city. The area around it has elementary and middle schools with 85% Hispanic and 85% Early Language Learners and could be as high as 90% Economically Disadvantaged. Imagine the Adversity score for those students just from the surrounding ‘environment’.

Our City is Property Wealthy. Housing prices are high everywhere. However, a HS could be Title 1 (This means at least 40% of your students are Low Income) or not. Students are bussed from multiple zip codes. Everyone is free to Transfer to any HS in our City District. Our District tries to equalize college admissions by weighting a Pre-AP class no different than an AP class giving ‘all’ students the chance for a higher ranking. In our case - it seems like our District is doing it’s best to equalize and there is a current battle going on to equalize ‘more’ bussing from those more disadvantaged areas to the more advantaged areas. Adding CollegeBoard Adversity into this mix is going to really upset this well-built balance.

I’m thankful I have no more skin in this game.