Maryland Report Card 2024: 5-Star Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprise! Wealthy kids test better!

There's always one in the crowd. Instead of celebrating one of the (very) few victories that MCPS has, they throw scat. I hope you don't work for MCPS, BOE or MC Board, because if you do you need to be fired.

But if you want to play that game, yes, educated parents statistically tend to value education and be financially more successful. They also tend to purchase houses that are more expensive, so cluster with other like-minded parents. They also have the financial resources to hire tutors if and when the public schools fail to educate.

If you want to change that, then you need to start with the attitudes of the parents towards academics. The children are all just along for the ride.

To everyone else except this person, congratulations on achieving 5-stars! It's a huge accomplishment!

To take your logic further it is a bad look that only these few schools in wealthy areas are five star since more should be. It is no huge achievement to educate kids whose families have money and resources to aid in supporting education and who value education. Schools in these areas should be 5 stars. This should be expected. So it looks like MCPS is achieving in educating at least some of the easiest kids to educate. This is not a victory. This should be the standard. Something to celebrate would be lower income schools achieving five or even four stars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprise! Wealthy kids test better!

There's always one in the crowd. Instead of celebrating one of the (very) few victories that MCPS has, they throw scat. I hope you don't work for MCPS, BOE or MC Board, because if you do you need to be fired.

But if you want to play that game, yes, educated parents statistically tend to value education and be financially more successful. They also tend to purchase houses that are more expensive, so cluster with other like-minded parents. They also have the financial resources to hire tutors if and when the public schools fail to educate.

If you want to change that, then you need to start with the attitudes of the parents towards academics. The children are all just along for the ride.

To everyone else except this person, congratulations on achieving 5-stars! It's a huge accomplishment!

Wow, I struck a huge nerve here.

I think you need to do some self reflection as to why you react this way to a very simple and true statement.

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to see a list of all the ratings or do you have to click on each school's page separately?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to see a list of all the ratings or do you have to click on each school's page separately?

You have to click on each school’s page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprise! Wealthy kids test better!

There's always one in the crowd. Instead of celebrating one of the (very) few victories that MCPS has, they throw scat. I hope you don't work for MCPS, BOE or MC Board, because if you do you need to be fired.

But if you want to play that game, yes, educated parents statistically tend to value education and be financially more successful. They also tend to purchase houses that are more expensive, so cluster with other like-minded parents. They also have the financial resources to hire tutors if and when the public schools fail to educate.

If you want to change that, then you need to start with the attitudes of the parents towards academics. The children are all just along for the ride.

To everyone else except this person, congratulations on achieving 5-stars! It's a huge accomplishment!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprise! Wealthy kids test better!

There's always one in the crowd. Instead of celebrating one of the (very) few victories that MCPS has, they throw scat. I hope you don't work for MCPS, BOE or MC Board, because if you do you need to be fired.

But if you want to play that game, yes, educated parents statistically tend to value education and be financially more successful. They also tend to purchase houses that are more expensive, so cluster with other like-minded parents. They also have the financial resources to hire tutors if and when the public schools fail to educate.

If you want to change that, then you need to start with the attitudes of the parents towards academics. The children are all just along for the ride.

To everyone else except this person, congratulations on achieving 5-stars! It's a huge accomplishment!

To take your logic further it is a bad look that only these few schools in wealthy areas are five star since more should be. It is no huge achievement to educate kids whose families have money and resources to aid in supporting education and who value education. Schools in these areas should be 5 stars. This should be expected. So it looks like MCPS is achieving in educating at least some of the easiest kids to educate. This is not a victory. This should be the standard. Something to celebrate would be lower income schools achieving five or even four stars.

How about kids from these schools do a lot more homework and practice more than other schools? Kids spent their own time studying and working hard in these schools. Don't take credit from them.

[Anonymous]

MCPS wrote "disappointingly flat"?

Did the McKnight era ever allow an MCPS press release that wasn't pure sunshine and rainbows?


Stars aren't interesting. What are the metrics where schools are failing?

[Anonymous]

Do we know what the "strategic direction of school-focused support framework implemented by new MCPS superintendent, Dr. Thomas W. Taylor" is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we know what the "strategic direction of school-focused support framework implemented by new MCPS superintendent, Dr. Thomas W. Taylor" is?

He'll be presenting a preview of his operating budget tomorrow. Some information is on the slides:

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DBMJZ44F8CAF/$file/Overview%20Supt%20FY2026%20Rec%20Operating%20Budget%20241205%20PPT.pdf

[Anonymous]

For all the bump that wealth gives, pyle only got 4 stars? Up until a couple years ago, it always got 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all the bump that wealth gives, pyle only got 4 stars? Up until a couple years ago, it always got 5.

I’ve got news for you: outside of the magnet programs, essentially all of MCPS is mediocre.

Outside of the elementary schools OP listed, only Whitman got 5 stars. That is the sole school, from what I can tell. Poolesville is a 4. Churchill is a 4. Frost MS is a 4.

Keep in mind that even 5 stars only requires getting 75% of the points.

Fox5 has a google doc of all the schools in the state and their ratings: https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://foxbaltimore.com/resources/pdf/942ebf16-fffd-43d2-b57f-28181df68f82-2024starratings.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we know what the "strategic direction of school-focused support framework implemented by new MCPS superintendent, Dr. Thomas W. Taylor" is?

I was wondering the same thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do we know what the "strategic direction of school-focused support framework implemented by new MCPS superintendent, Dr. Thomas W. Taylor" is?

He'll be presenting a preview of his operating budget tomorrow. Some information is on the slides:

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DBMJZ44F8CAF/$file/Overview%20Supt%20FY2026%20Rec%20Operating%20Budget%20241205%20PPT.pdf

I hope the actual presentation/discussion is better than this power point because this is terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do we know what the "strategic direction of school-focused support framework implemented by new MCPS superintendent, Dr. Thomas W. Taylor" is?

He'll be presenting a preview of his operating budget tomorrow. Some information is on the slides:

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DBMJZ44F8CAF/$file/Overview%20Supt%20FY2026%20Rec%20Operating%20Budget%20241205%20PPT.pdf

I hope the actual presentation/discussion is better than this power point because this is terrible.

Yeah, that taught me nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprise! Wealthy kids test better!

There's always one in the crowd. Instead of celebrating one of the (very) few victories that MCPS has, they throw scat. I hope you don't work for MCPS, BOE or MC Board, because if you do you need to be fired.

But if you want to play that game, yes, educated parents statistically tend to value education and be financially more successful. They also tend to purchase houses that are more expensive, so cluster with other like-minded parents. They also have the financial resources to hire tutors if and when the public schools fail to educate.

If you want to change that, then you need to start with the attitudes of the parents towards academics. The children are all just along for the ride.

To everyone else except this person, congratulations on achieving 5-stars! It's a huge accomplishment!

To take your logic further it is a bad look that only these few schools in wealthy areas are five star since more should be. It is no huge achievement to educate kids whose families have money and resources to aid in supporting education and who value education. Schools in these areas should be 5 stars. This should be expected. So it looks like MCPS is achieving in educating at least some of the easiest kids to educate. This is not a victory. This should be the standard. Something to celebrate would be lower income schools achieving five or even four stars.

+1 this is embarrassing (Seven Locks parent)