An interesting article about MCPS student population

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that a lot of white families had kids in MCPS and those kids graduated. And the majority of new arrivals to the county have not been white. Therefore white numbers went down and others went up.

I see this in my own neighborhood. Most of my white neighbors are older couples - emptynesters. Every time one of them moves out - a non-white family moves in.

Incidentally - our elementary school has gone from 40% white to 30% white in just four years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An article on the huge increase of students overall in the last 15+ years and how Hispanics are now the majority of the students in the entire county. What I am trying to figure out is if the whites are fleeing the county, moving to private schools, or something else. That is a huge decrease in numbers.

http://www.mymcmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/10.11.16-demo-2.png

http://www.mymcmedia.org/student-population-changes-in-montgomery-public-schools-video/

Has the definition of "Hispanic" changed over the last 15 years? What if some people who used to appear as "White" years ago appear as "Hispanic" now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that a lot of white families had kids in MCPS and those kids graduated. And the majority of new arrivals to the county have not been white. Therefore white numbers went down and others went up.

I see this in my own neighborhood. Most of my white neighbors are older couples - emptynesters. Every time one of them moves out - a non-white family moves in.

This is also the case in our neighborhood of SFHs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very interesting

Yes the question is where are the young whites going in the area

Personally I think its a combo of

less marriage/kids overall, going to private, white flight to Howard

The hispanic population has nearly doubled in less than 15 years.

Something has to give here. The tax base is shrinking and costs are increasing its not sustainable

+1

There is no way this county can support the kind of development/growth that has been occurring. Something will have to give. Police forces, schools all need funding and when that goes down, the standard of living goes down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very interesting

Yes the question is where are the young whites going in the area

Personally I think its a combo of

less marriage/kids overall, going to private, white flight to Howard

The hispanic population has nearly doubled in less than 15 years.

Something has to give here. The tax base is shrinking and costs are increasing its not sustainable

+1

There is no way this county can support the kind of development/growth that has been occurring. Something will have to give. Police forces, schools all need funding and when that goes down, the standard of living goes down.

they need some way to curtail the development. I see new housing being built all over the place. Just look at crown farm. We don't have the infrastructure to deal with this. The schools certainly can't handle more kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very interesting

Yes the question is where are the young whites going in the area

Personally I think its a combo of

less marriage/kids overall, going to private, white flight to Howard

The hispanic population has nearly doubled in less than 15 years.

Something has to give here. The tax base is shrinking and costs are increasing its not sustainable

+1

There is no way this county can support the kind of development/growth that has been occurring. Something will have to give. Police forces, schools all need funding and when that goes down, the standard of living goes down.

they need some way to curtail the development. I see new housing being built all over the place. Just look at crown farm. We don't have the infrastructure to deal with this. The schools certainly can't handle more kids.

The solutions is pretty obvious: we need a ton of charter schools. Maybe we can for once learn something from DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that a lot of white families had kids in MCPS and those kids graduated. And the majority of new arrivals to the county have not been white. Therefore white numbers went down and others went up.

I see this in my own neighborhood. Most of my white neighbors are older couples - emptynesters. Every time one of them moves out - a non-white family moves in.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An article on the huge increase of students overall in the last 15+ years and how Hispanics are now the majority of the students in the entire county. What I am trying to figure out is if the whites are fleeing the county, moving to private schools, or something else. That is a huge decrease in numbers.

http://www.mymcmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/10.11.16-demo-2.png

http://www.mymcmedia.org/student-population-changes-in-montgomery-public-schools-video/

Has the definition of "Hispanic" changed over the last 15 years? What if some people who used to appear as "White" years ago appear as "Hispanic" now?

Nah. This is self-identification and I can't imagine a trend that would have someone who used to identify as White start to identify as Hispanic. Or, rather, I can imagine that trend but it didn't happen since 2000. It happened in the 1970s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very interesting

Yes the question is where are the young whites going in the area

Personally I think its a combo of

less marriage/kids overall, going to private, white flight to Howard

The hispanic population has nearly doubled in less than 15 years.

Something has to give here. The tax base is shrinking and costs are increasing its not sustainable

+1

There is no way this county can support the kind of development/growth that has been occurring. Something will have to give. Police forces, schools all need funding and when that goes down, the standard of living goes down.

they need some way to curtail the development. I see new housing being built all over the place. Just look at crown farm. We don't have the infrastructure to deal with this. The schools certainly can't handle more kids.

The solutions is pretty obvious: we need a ton of charter schools. Maybe we can for once learn something from DC

I agree actually. I wish we had more choice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that a lot of white families had kids in MCPS and those kids graduated. And the majority of new arrivals to the county have not been white. Therefore white numbers went down and others went up.

I see this in my own neighborhood. Most of my white neighbors are older couples - emptynesters. Every time one of them moves out - a non-white family moves in.

This.

Also, Hispanics tend to have more kids per family; whites less so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that a lot of white families had kids in MCPS and those kids graduated. And the majority of new arrivals to the county have not been white. Therefore white numbers went down and others went up.

I see this in my own neighborhood. Most of my white neighbors are older couples - emptynesters. Every time one of them moves out - a non-white family moves in.

This.

Also, Hispanics tend to have more kids per family; whites less so.

I work in Gaithersburg and am always notice this. The Latino families seem to have kids younger and have more of them. I'd imagine that has something to do with it.

[Anonymous]

We have had plenty of white families with young kids move into our neighborhood. 4 out of 5 send their kids to private school. (The 5th family actually pulled their kids out of a nice DC private and went public in order to afford the house.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very interesting

Yes the question is where are the young whites going in the area

Personally I think its a combo of

less marriage/kids overall, going to private, white flight to Howard

The hispanic population has nearly doubled in less than 15 years.

Something has to give here. The tax base is shrinking and costs are increasing its not sustainable

+1

There is no way this county can support the kind of development/growth that has been occurring. Something will have to give. Police forces, schools all need funding and when that goes down, the standard of living goes down.

they need some way to curtail the development. I see new housing being built all over the place. Just look at crown farm. We don't have the infrastructure to deal with this. The schools certainly can't handle more kids.

The development recently seems OUT OF CONTROL. There is high density housing going up all over the county. Where is the plan for corresponding schools/roads, etc. The housing goes up so quickly and people move in, but I haven't seen them building more schools at the same time. The City of Rockville had a video out recently about projected population growth. I can't remember the numbers, but it is going to be an HUGE increase.

There's development in the Shady Grove area, in Olney, in Rockville, all over. I drive around the county a good deal and see condos/townhouses going up everywhere.

[Anonymous]

PP here - This is the video in case anyone is interested.

Sorry if it's too OT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0i_7FBUpg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very interesting

Yes the question is where are the young whites going in the area

Personally I think its a combo of

less marriage/kids overall, going to private, white flight to Howard

The hispanic population has nearly doubled in less than 15 years.

Something has to give here. The tax base is shrinking and costs are increasing its not sustainable

+1

There is no way this county can support the kind of development/growth that has been occurring. Something will have to give. Police forces, schools all need funding and when that goes down, the standard of living goes down.

they need some way to curtail the development. I see new housing being built all over the place. Just look at crown farm. We don't have the infrastructure to deal with this. The schools certainly can't handle more kids.

The development recently seems OUT OF CONTROL. There is high density housing going up all over the county. Where is the plan for corresponding schools/roads, etc. The housing goes up so quickly and people move in, but I haven't seen them building more schools at the same time. The City of Rockville had a video out recently about projected population growth. I can't remember the numbers, but it is going to be an HUGE increase.

There's development in the Shady Grove area, in Olney, in Rockville, all over. I drive around the county a good deal and see condos/townhouses going up everywhere.

That is the question.