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Moreofthesame: Enrollment at St. Rose and Bishop Hendricken has remained fairly constant for many years, and Hendricken now has a lot fewer kids from Warwick than they ever did. So that doesn’t help. St. Kevin’s enrollment has, indeed, increased. But not nearly enough to even remotely explain the vast special ed disparity with neighboring communities. And while I fully appreciate that IEP’s govern a variety of educationally handicapping conditions (and not just learning disabilities), that does not address the reasons for Warwick’s disproportionately high numbers. If your contention is that many families with smart kids have chosen to move to other communities, leaving Warwick with a higher concentration of special ed kids (especially move-ins), I can buy that. If, on the other hand, you are suggesting that Warwick has ALWAYS had a disproportionate number of special ed kids who grow up and give birth to more special ed kids, it still begs the question: What is so unique about Warwick that makes such a scenario unfold here at vastly disproportionate rates when compared with other communities? If PARCC results are, indeed, “dissatisfying”, it would support the notion that families with smart kids have been leaving the system at accelerated rates, leaving behind a more concentrated collection of low achievers and continuing Warwick’s educational death spiral. So let's get a look at those PARCC results.