MD report cards are out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have thoughts on how these scores correlate to the scores on GreatSchools? It seems that some schools that have lower rankings on GreatSchools have higher rankings on these scores. Just curious why that might be?

Because data is very easy to manipulate for different agendas.

[Anonymous]

Looked at Poolesville HS, since it is supposed to have three test-in magnet programs, and one non-magnet program for local students who do not qualify for the Science, Humanities and GE programs.

It is a rural community with lower numbers of Hispanic population than Gaithersburg. There are more White rural students. Interesting to see the performance of White students in ELA. Majority of Asians are either bussed to the school or are high achieving and their families moved to poolesville for the magnet HS. Special Ed students typically are in non-magnet programs, though there are some twice gifted students in the magnet programs as well. Most Hispanic students are those who are in magnet programs and are high achieving.

PERCENT PROFICIENT
-- ---- ---- ---- -- MATH -- -- ELA
Asian-- ---- ---- ---- ---- --97.6 % -- -- 92.9 %
Black or African American-- ---- 70 % -- -- 52.2 %
Hispanic/Latino of any race -- -- 75 % -- -- 72.7 %
White-- ---- ---- ---- -- 81.9 % -- -- 54 %
Two or more races-- ---- -- 88.9 % -- -- 65 %
Special Education-- ---- -- 37.5 % -- -- 22.2 %
All Students-- ---- ---- -- 85.4 % -- -- 66.3 %

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have thoughts on how these scores correlate to the scores on GreatSchools? It seems that some schools that have lower rankings on GreatSchools have higher rankings on these scores. Just curious why that might be?

Because they use completely different data sets.

So that was my question...which rankings/scores are a better reflection of school quality? What do the new rankings tell you that the GreatSchools ones couldn't/didn't, given the different data sets used?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have thoughts on how these scores correlate to the scores on GreatSchools? It seems that some schools that have lower rankings on GreatSchools have higher rankings on these scores. Just curious why that might be?

Because they use completely different data sets.

So that was my question...which rankings/scores are a better reflection of school quality? What do the new rankings tell you that the GreatSchools ones couldn't/didn't, given the different data sets used?

What are the data sets? I thought both used PARCC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looked at Poolesville HS, since it is supposed to have three test-in magnet programs, and one non-magnet program for local students who do not qualify for the Science, Humanities and GE programs.

It is a rural community with lower numbers of Hispanic population than Gaithersburg. There are more White rural students. Interesting to see the performance of White students in ELA. Majority of Asians are either bussed to the school or are high achieving and their families moved to poolesville for the magnet HS. Special Ed students typically are in non-magnet programs, though there are some twice gifted students in the magnet programs as well. Most Hispanic students are those who are in magnet programs and are high achieving.

PERCENT PROFICIENT
-- ---- ---- ---- -- MATH -- -- ELA
Asian-- ---- ---- ---- ---- --97.6 % -- -- 92.9 %
Black or African American-- ---- 70 % -- -- 52.2 %
Hispanic/Latino of any race -- -- 75 % -- -- 72.7 %
White-- ---- ---- ---- -- 81.9 % -- -- 54 %
Two or more races-- ---- -- 88.9 % -- -- 65 %
Special Education-- ---- -- 37.5 % -- -- 22.2 %
All Students-- ---- ---- -- 85.4 % -- -- 66.3 %

Interesting to see hispanics outscoring whites in ELA. And once again, Asian American students outscores everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looked at Poolesville HS, since it is supposed to have three test-in magnet programs, and one non-magnet program for local students who do not qualify for the Science, Humanities and GE programs.

It is a rural community with lower numbers of Hispanic population than Gaithersburg. There are more White rural students. Interesting to see the performance of White students in ELA. Majority of Asians are either bussed to the school or are high achieving and their families moved to poolesville for the magnet HS. Special Ed students typically are in non-magnet programs, though there are some twice gifted students in the magnet programs as well. Most Hispanic students are those who are in magnet programs and are high achieving.

PERCENT PROFICIENT
-- ---- ---- ---- -- MATH -- -- ELA
Asian-- ---- ---- ---- ---- --97.6 % -- -- 92.9 %
Black or African American-- ---- 70 % -- -- 52.2 %
Hispanic/Latino of any race -- -- 75 % -- -- 72.7 %
White-- ---- ---- ---- -- 81.9 % -- -- 54 %
Two or more races-- ---- -- 88.9 % -- -- 65 %
Special Education-- ---- -- 37.5 % -- -- 22.2 %
All Students-- ---- ---- -- 85.4 % -- -- 66.3 %

Interesting to see hispanics outscoring whites in ELA. And once again, Asian American students outscores everyone.

Statistics are BS.

Hispanics make up 7.7% of the population at PHS.
total pop - 1183

91 kids (many who are in the magnet b/c it's 75% magnet) vs. 600 white students . . .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda Beat has an article out:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/quarter-of-mcps-schools-receive-top-rank-in-new-state-accountability-model/

Most Montgomery County schools received three or more stars from the state, according to data released by the MSDEA on Tuesday. One school received one star, three received two stars, 39 received three stars, 102 were awarded four stars and 50 were awarded five stars.

It has a good summary chart for the entire state.

Oh - it also has an MCPS summary by cluster:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/See-how-MCPS-schools-ranked-by-cluster.pdf

Really, nothing surprising - it's a map of SES status in the county. And in case anyone was hunting who the 2s and 1 were:
Carl Sandburg Center 2
John L Gildner Regional Inst for Children & Adol 2
Alternative Programs 1
Duh. These are the schools for kids that aren't being successful. They are transitional. When kids are back on track (hopefully), they return to their home school.

At least two schools are missing. Can't see Somerset and Bethesda ES's

Or Westbrook or Bradley Hills. This isn't a full list of MCPS elementary schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Website getting hammered, apparently. Or maybe this is how the State is limiting access to this information.

This is seriously a dialup speed connection website. Maryland State technology is not great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looked at Poolesville HS, since it is supposed to have three test-in magnet programs, and one non-magnet program for local students who do not qualify for the Science, Humanities and GE programs.

It is a rural community with lower numbers of Hispanic population than Gaithersburg. There are more White rural students. Interesting to see the performance of White students in ELA. Majority of Asians are either bussed to the school or are high achieving and their families moved to poolesville for the magnet HS. Special Ed students typically are in non-magnet programs, though there are some twice gifted students in the magnet programs as well. Most Hispanic students are those who are in magnet programs and are high achieving.

PERCENT PROFICIENT
-- ---- ---- ---- -- MATH -- -- ELA
Asian-- ---- ---- ---- ---- --97.6 % -- -- 92.9 %
Black or African American-- ---- 70 % -- -- 52.2 %
Hispanic/Latino of any race -- -- 75 % -- -- 72.7 %
White-- ---- ---- ---- -- 81.9 % -- -- 54 %
Two or more races-- ---- -- 88.9 % -- -- 65 %
Special Education-- ---- -- 37.5 % -- -- 22.2 %
All Students-- ---- ---- -- 85.4 % -- -- 66.3 %

Interesting to see hispanics outscoring whites in ELA. And once again, Asian American students outscores everyone.

Statistics are BS.

Hispanics make up 7.7% of the population at PHS.
total pop - 1183

91 kids (many who are in the magnet b/c it's 75% magnet) vs. 600 white students . . .

But it's not BS when applied to low performing schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda Beat has an article out:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/quarter-of-mcps-schools-receive-top-rank-in-new-state-accountability-model/

Most Montgomery County schools received three or more stars from the state, according to data released by the MSDEA on Tuesday. One school received one star, three received two stars, 39 received three stars, 102 were awarded four stars and 50 were awarded five stars.

It has a good summary chart for the entire state.

Oh - it also has an MCPS summary by cluster:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/See-how-MCPS-schools-ranked-by-cluster.pdf

Really, nothing surprising - it's a map of SES status in the county. And in case anyone was hunting who the 2s and 1 were:
Carl Sandburg Center 2
John L Gildner Regional Inst for Children & Adol 2
Alternative Programs 1
Duh. These are the schools for kids that aren't being successful. They are transitional. When kids are back on track (hopefully), they return to their home school.

At least two schools are missing. Can't see Somerset and Bethesda ES's

Or Westbrook or Bradley Hills. This isn't a full list of MCPS elementary schools.

I think they got rid of that PDF because I don't see it on the Bethesda magazine website anymore. Here's a list of all the schools which got 5s (Somerset Westbrook, Bethesda ES and Bradley Hills are all there).
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/quarter-of-mcps-schools-receive-top-rank-in-new-state-accountability-model/

[Anonymous]

Wow Northwest 67% outscored Quince Orchard 66% by 1%. QO zealots will be ticked off. Rachel Carson didn't do very well either so its not just Brown Stations bringing down QO.

[Anonymous]

There are positive reports on the report card. I just saw on ABC 7 news that MOCO leads the state with 50 five star schools and HOCO was second with 31 five star schools. The story was about Roosevelt High School in Prince Georges County having 4 stars. They noted the frozen website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda Beat has an article out:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/quarter-of-mcps-schools-receive-top-rank-in-new-state-accountability-model/

Most Montgomery County schools received three or more stars from the state, according to data released by the MSDEA on Tuesday. One school received one star, three received two stars, 39 received three stars, 102 were awarded four stars and 50 were awarded five stars.

It has a good summary chart for the entire state.

Oh - it also has an MCPS summary by cluster:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/See-how-MCPS-schools-ranked-by-cluster.pdf

Really, nothing surprising - it's a map of SES status in the county. And in case anyone was hunting who the 2s and 1 were:
Carl Sandburg Center 2
John L Gildner Regional Inst for Children & Adol 2
Alternative Programs 1
Duh. These are the schools for kids that aren't being successful. They are transitional. When kids are back on track (hopefully), they return to their home school.

At least two schools are missing. Can't see Somerset and Bethesda ES's

Or Westbrook or Bradley Hills. This isn't a full list of MCPS elementary schools.

DD's middle school is listed in the wrong cluster. It took me a long time to find it. That could be what happened with those elementary schools.

[Anonymous]

There are positive reports on the report card. I just saw on ABC 7 news that MOCO leads the state with 50 five star schools and HOCO was second with 31 five star schools.

Except there are 199 schools in MoCo (I omitted the 6-7 special ed and career only schools) listed on the MCPS website. Is this correct? I always thought that there were only 150...

Howard only has 74 schools so a little less than half of Howard schools have five stars while around only 25% of MoCo schools have five stars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are positive reports on the report card. I just saw on ABC 7 news that MOCO leads the state with 50 five star schools and HOCO was second with 31 five star schools. The story was about Roosevelt High School in Prince Georges County having 4 stars. They noted the frozen website.

MoCo has almost 3 times as many schools as HoCo so really nothing to brag about.