UPES downgraded on Great Schools, from 7 to 6

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Town of University Park is mostly middle and upper middle class. (The neighborhood is also about 80% white http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Park,_Maryland) The school is in the middle of the neighborhood, however, some lower income areas outside of UP and College Heights Estates are zoned to the school. There are families in UP who love the elementary school, but many send their kids to private school. It is the involvement of the parents with higher SES, who have time and resources to raise money, organize, and fund programs, that set this school apart from other PGCPS.

Maybe you should view the historical demographics of the School University Park Barely as 2,000 people in the whole entire town lol. UPES has always pulled from the majority area and has always had a solid reputation when it came to academics. How is UPES set apart from other PG county schools when there a numerous schools that actually test just as good if not better? Also once again the Majority of the students and parents are minority, over 60 percent. White students only make up 24 percent of the population at the school if the minority kids were failing the scores wouldn't be what they are now, 24 percent of a school population can't create good test scores if the other 60+ percent are failing. So those "low income" families and students must be doing something right, as they have been for DECADES. Besides UPES while a good school test scores aren't better than Perrywood, Woodmore, Glendale, or even Capitol Heights elementary all which are almost uniformly African American. Please go back to the MOCO board

Well they certinaly aren't doing everything right or they wouldn't be poor with diminished prospects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Town of University Park is mostly middle and upper middle class. (The neighborhood is also about 80% white http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Park,_Maryland) The school is in the middle of the neighborhood, however, some lower income areas outside of UP and College Heights Estates are zoned to the school. There are families in UP who love the elementary school, but many send their kids to private school. It is the involvement of the parents with higher SES, who have time and resources to raise money, organize, and fund programs, that set this school apart from other PGCPS.

Maybe you should view the historical demographics of the School University Park Barely as 2,000 people in the whole entire town lol. UPES has always pulled from the majority area and has always had a solid reputation when it came to academics. How is UPES set apart from other PG county schools when there a numerous schools that actually test just as good if not better? Also once again the Majority of the students and parents are minority, over 60 percent. White students only make up 24 percent of the population at the school if the minority kids were failing the scores wouldn't be what they are now, 24 percent of a school population can't create good test scores if the other 60+ percent are failing. So those "low income" families and students must be doing something right, as they have been for DECADES. Besides UPES while a good school test scores aren't better than Perrywood, Woodmore, Glendale, or even Capitol Heights elementary all which are almost uniformly African American. Please go back to the MOCO board

Well they certinaly aren't doing everything right or they wouldn't be poor with diminished prospects.

Or maybe they are content with their lives in a nice stable neighborhood with an equally nice school in University Park elementary