Thoughts for Kensington Parkkwood Elementary School?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here are the demographic stats for KPES from the Montgomery County page:

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schoolodex/schooloverview.aspx?s=02783

African-American: 5.2%
American Indian: .5%
Asian: 5.1%
Hispanic: 7.0%
White: 82.1%

There are 554 students in the school. So for a k-5 school, that means that on average, there is one African American and one Hispanic kid per GRADE.

Actually, with those percentages there would be 29 African American children at the school (about 5 per grade) and 39 Hispanics (6.5 per grade).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

we considered buying in the KP neighborhood. We looked at the test scores broken out by ethnicity, and noticed no results for our ethnicity. That means therecwere NO children of our ethnicity in grades 3,4 or 5. We did not buy in that neighborhood.

I wouldn't assume it means NO children of that ethnicity--if the individual numbers of children are low, they may not aggregate that information for the public reports. E.g. if there were 5 children in a group, an 80% pass rate would be a very visible sign that one of those 5 individuals failed. I don't know what the cut-off for aggregation is, but it would definitely be worth considering.

Another thing to note is that the 4th and 5th grades are much smaller than the other grades--the school is having growth in the early grades that the county's demographic predictions didn't account for. (Possibly new, younger families moving in to the neighborhood, or families choosing not to attend private or parochial schools at the same rate as before.) So there were 119 kindergartners versus 70 5th graders in 2008-2009--with those figures one would expect 6 African-American kids in kindergarten versus 4 in the 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

BTW I am not sure where the house is you are looking at....but you should probably doublecheck the elementary school....not sure you would be in the KP district?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BTW I am not sure where the house is you are looking at....but you should probably doublecheck the elementary school....not sure you would be in the KP district?

Is this because the OP mentioned Bethesda? Some Bethesda addresses go to KP (those in the Parkwood neighborhood, which is part Bethesda, part Kensington).

Here's the link to the MoCo school locator:

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/gis/PublicLocator.asp