Are they still updating MCPS Schools at a Glance?

[Anonymous]

The "current year" there is 2017-18, which means it hasn't been current for over a year.

[Anonymous]

Did you check all the schools or just yours?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you check all the schools or just yours?

There's a pulldown menu that says "Display Data for Year:" and the most recent year option is 2017-18...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you check all the schools or just yours?

There's a pulldown menu that says "Display Data for Year:" and the most recent year option is 2017-18...

My thinking is that data for 2018-19 hasn’t been aggregated yet.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't this mainly provide statistics from the PARCC test which the state decided wasn't helpful?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't this mainly provide statistics from the PARCC test which the state decided wasn't helpful?

No. It also provides info about:
percentage of highly qualified teachers
suspensions and expulsions
Percentage of students who are FARMS, ESOL, and SPED
Absenteeism rate
Staff:student ratio
Operating budget

A bunch of other stuff I can’t recall

[Anonymous]

I think it usually gets updated in the fall for the previous school year.

[Anonymous]

Do you need the info as part of a housing decision?

[Anonymous]

I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Hopefully they can balance this out with the new boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Hopefully they can balance this out with the new boundaries.

What happens when the new boundaries then rebalance and the people with money cluster away from poor people again? If you have 1mil$ you can go to any school you want to and you can’t draw that privilege away

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

This. And I think they need to stop posting the demographics across racial groups too. Sadly, lots of people purposely seek out schools that have the least number of Black/Hispanic students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish they would get rid of it but I doubt they will. It’s awful that buyers can access the exact number of poor children in each area, so they’re sure to avoid them.

Do you think people are confused which parts have the poor families?

Before 2005 or so, do you think you knew the precise percentage of FARMS and ESOL in every school? People knew the difference between Potomac and Silver Spring, but NO, they did not have this data.

Witness the ludicrous arguments a few years ago when Westland Middle School split off into Silver Creek Middle School. Both are prosperous, excellent schools serving Bethesda and Chevy Chase but there were freak-outs and hateful rhetoric because one school had 8% FARMS and one school had 20%.

This. And I think they need to stop posting the demographics across racial groups too. Sadly, lots of people purposely seek out schools that have the least number of Black/Hispanic students.

On the other hand as a parent of an AA child, I want to seek out schools that have more than a token AA population.