The W is published weekly throughout the school year and several times over the summer.
Copies are available in English and Spanish. Click on the links below to see our current and past issues.
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Why West Is the Best...
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First Grade, on average, grew 39 points from beginning-of-year (BOY) to MOY on the math iReady test.
This is more than one year’s growth in only half a year!
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70 percent of second-graders are on or above grade level in reading. And, 77 percent of second-graders met their goal of showing a half-year or more growth in math. (37 percent of second-graders grew a full year.)
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Third-grade scholars beat the DCPS average by 5 percentage points on the last ELA ANet test.
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81 percent of fourth-grade scholars met their i-Ready math goal.
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Fifth-grade scholars beat the DCPS average by 8 percentage points on the last ELA ANet test.
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Student's rated their satisfaction with West at 93 percent.
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West has seen a 38 percent increase in My School DC lottery applications.
