On DC CAS, Students with Disabilities Outperform Their Non-Disabled Peers at Washington Yu Ying PCS

The 2013 DC CAS scores for students with disabilities demonstrate an increase in reading and math proficiency.  However, there still remains a significant gap in performance between students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers. The increase in DC CAS scores for all students, as well as for students with disabilities, shows promise for narrowing the gap.

In a few unprecedented cases this year, students with disabilities outperformed their non-disabled peers in reading, math, or both.  For example, students with disabilities at Washington Yu Ying PCS outperformed their non-disabled peers by 1.4 percentage points in math (82.4% proficient for SPED versus 81% proficient for non-SPED).  Not only are the math proficiency scores high for all students at Washington Yu Ying PCS, but math proficiency scores for students with disabilities is higher than the average for all test-takers in DC this year, alone.

This is truly noteworthy!     

While there remains a lot more work to be done, especially in increasing reading proficiency performance, these results are encouraging and demonstrate that there is every possibility in eliminating the achievement disparity given high expectations and appropriate supports for our students with disabilities.  

The 2013 DC CAS scores for students with disabilities demonstrate an increase in reading and math proficiency.  However, there still remains a significant gap in performance between students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers.