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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Makes zero sense to build a new HS and fix up a crumbling one when enrollment is decreasing, budgets are being cut, and tax revenue is down.

The kids will be fine taking a bus instead of walking.  Thousands of kids do it in MCPS.  They will be fine.[/quote]

More like 50% of the kids who can walk to Wootton will be forced to take a bus.  That means their parents will have to drive to pick up for after school activities, further clogging the roads around Crown.

Wootton can be repaired in the interim, and renovated in the long term.  It's just that MCPS doesn't want to do that.[/quote]
They will survive.   Gosh, how do the rest of us schlubs manage put our kids on the bus and drive to pick them up after school for activities.

Moco tax revenues are down. Enrollment is declining.   Makes zero sense to rebuild Wootton for a few neighborhoods to have to take a bus.

I don't work for MCPS, and I think it's a stupid idea to fix Wootton AND open Crown.[/quote]

It’s stupid idea to build crown. MCPS’s mismanagement is undeniable. They poured resources into opening an unnecessary school while neglecting Wootton’s needs, now forcing Wootton to become the victim of their poor planning and lose its current building where they belong for 50+ years. It’s no different from Silver Spring international middle school which is forced to close.

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Sure, MCPS sucks,  but when they started to build Crown, all of the surrounding HS were projected to be over capacity, and they didn't have this regional model concept.

Now, they are projecting enrollment declines, and we have a huge budget issue.

Yes, they should've fixed Wootton a while ago, but there were a lot of schools that needed to be fixed in the CIP.

So, here we are, declining enrollments, budget issues, a brand new HS, and another HS next to that new build that is falling apart.

[b]Common sense is to move the Wootton kids to Crown.[/b][/quote]

This. Move Wootton to Crown, move many feeders to QO and Crown and improve QO and Crown. Wootton will not suffer much because of this (other than the parents crying about mixing with the brown and black people).

Wootton is not that special that they get to segregate all the Asians there. Spread them around to improve the other schools. Tiger parents will make the other schools also better.

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They may help make the test scores and ratings better but it won't help the struggling students.

Here are the total enrollment numbers, enrollments for Blacks/African American and Hispanic/Latinos and their 2025 MCAP proficiency rates for the Wootton feeder schools:

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MCPS
Total enrollment: 159181
Overall FARMS Rate 42.9
Total Black/African American count: 34293
Total Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity count: 56716

MCAP Proficiency rates:
ELA All 57
FARMS 35
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 34.3
Black/African American 48.3

Math All 35.7
FARMS 15.4
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 15.7
Black/African American 22.9

Looking at the feeder elementary schools for Wootton:

Cold Spring
Total enrollment: 362
Overall FARMS Rate 8.2
Total Black/African American count: 25
Total Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity count: 31

MCAP Proficiency rates:
ELA All 84.2
FARMS 83.3
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 75
Black/African American 75

Math All 85.5
FARMS 79.2
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 90
Black/African American 47.1

Dufief
Total enrollment: 276
Overall FARMS Rate 19.1
Total Black/African American count: 46
Total Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity count: 40

MCAP Proficiency rates:
ELA All 57.8
FARMS 8.7
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 21.4
Black/African American 41.7

Math All 58.8
FARMS 5
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 26.7
Black/African American 33.3

Fallsmead
Total enrollment: 512
Overall FARMS Rate 21.2
Total Black/African American count: 55
Total Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity count: 76

MCAP Proficiency rates:
ELA All 73.9
FARMS 56.4
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 63.9
Black/African American 52.6

Math All 72.2
FARMS 53.4
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 50
Black/African American 57.9

Lakewood
Total enrollment: 406
Overall FARMS Rate 21.9
Total Black/African American count: 70
Total Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity count: 48

MCAP Proficiency rates:
ELA All 73.6
FARMS 42.1
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 62.5
Black/African American 50

Math All 68
FARMS 32.5
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 47.1
Black/African American 33.3

Stone Mill
Total enrollment: 516
Overall FARMS Rate 15.5
Total Black/African American count: 55
Total Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity count: 65

MCAP Proficiency rates:
ELA All 73.6
FARMS 58.3
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 60
Black/African American 57.1

Math All 74.1
FARMS 44.4
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 50
Black/African American 54.3

Travilah
Total enrollment: 372
Overall FARMS Rate 15.5
Total Black/African American count: 35
Total Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity count: 55

MCAP Proficiency rates:
ELA All 82.2
FARMS 62.5
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 73.3
Black/African American 69.6

Math All 74.7
FARMS 60.6
Hispanic/Latino of any ethnicity 68.8
Black/African American 41.7

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It's good that almost all of the groups at the schools are above the county averages.  But look at Dufief.  Dufief is middle of the pack when it comes to the FARMS rate out of those schools but barely above the county average for the ELA proficiency rates for all students.  Then the FARMS, Hispanic/Latino and Black/African American subgroups have proficiency averages below the county average for the ELA test.  Their FARMS student has a proficiency percentage of 5 percent compared to the county average of 15.4 percent.

Same thing with Stone Mill.  Stone Mill is tied for the second lowest FARMS rate in the cluster with Travilah.  However for overall ELA proficiency they're tied with Lakewood (which has a higher FARMS rate at 21.9 percent and highest in the cluster), only beating out Dufief.  Their subgroups for ELA isn't bad.  And their math numbers aren't bad, other then their FARMS Math proficiency rates are at the bottom three.

Cold Spring has great numbers but their populate of the FARMS, Hispanic/Latino Black/African American are small.  So just one or two students can change the percentages a lot.  And they also have the gifted program and more high performing students there.

This is just to point out, that even if demographics are spread out and evenly distributed, it doesn't necessarily help struggling students.  To truly help struggling students would require a more quality of education and more resources need to be devoted to make sure they are truly understanding the material.  Mixing up the demographics just kind of hides them.[/quote]

It's not just Dufief.  If you look at Lakewood's numbers by grade level, for whatever reason their Black/African American Grade 5 Math proficiency levels are way below county and state average:
State: 16.6
County: 30.4
Lakewood: 5.6

Same thing with their Grade 5 ELA proficiency rates for Black/African Americans:

State: 33.2
County: 43.1
Lakewood: 27.8

The numbers were below the county average for 2023-2024

Grade 5 Math Black/African American
State: 14.2
County: 26.5
Lakewood: 20

Grade 5 ELA Black/African American
State: 33.2
County: 43.1
Lakewood: 27.8[/quote]

Lakewood got a new principal in the last couple of years and there was a lot of turnover during the transition.  The fifth grade math teacher was one of those positions.  Sounds like the person she initially hired in the position left and they have another person in the position now.  But hopefully they'll have some stability the position now and will lead to better test scores.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1137808.page[/quote]

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