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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's probably buried in one of the previous threads now but there was a post how MCPS lagged behind from Fairfax, Frederick and Howard Counties in multiple areas.

For example looking at MD Report Card the Algebra I proficiency rate for Blacks/African Americans for each of the counties are:

Montgomery 5.6
Howard 19.2
Frederick 20.2
Prince George's County 24.5

The state average is 10.9 percent

And since Fairfax county doesn't use MCAP, other numbers were used to compare such as chronic absenteeism.  and Montgomery trailed behind Fairfax and the other school systems in that regards too.

Here is one of the threads that was talking about the numbers:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/45/1305522.page[/quote]

Sorry, Montgomery County's proficiency rate should be 15.3 percent above.[/quote]

It's interesting that the disparity is primarily at the Algebra 1 level, though, while MCPS seems significantly better at the lower levels.

For example, Black students in MCPS are 40.6% proficient on Math 3, 32.5% proficient on Math 4, 30.4% proficient on Math 5, and 18.3% proficient on Math 6, while Black students in PGCPS are 26.1% proficient on Math 3, 16.7% proficient on Math 4, 15.4% proficient on Math 5, and 11.3% proficient on Math 6.

If you limit it to just economically disadvantaged Black students in MCPS, they're 32.0% proficient on Math 3, 26.3% proficient on Math 4, 22.3% proficient on Math 5, and 10.8% proficient on Math 6.  While in PGCPS, economically disadvantaged Black students are 19.5% proficient on Math 3, 12.2% on Math 4, 10.6% on Math 5, and 7.4% on Math 6.

(I'm leaving out Math 7 and Math 8 because you start to get into selection issues on who is taking those tests vs who is taking Algebra 1 and geometry in middle school.)[/quote]

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