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[quote=Anonymous][quote]We also don't know what happened between 2010-2011 and 2016-2017.

And, if white students are now attending private schools in large numbers, what private schools are they attending? Have the private schools attended by white students in the area increased the number of seats? [/quote]

If you remember back in 2011-2014 there were a bunch of articles about white flight fears for the eastern side of the county. Starr and MCPS had a focus on how to retain white families in the DCC. I suspect this data is what was driving them and fear of scores dropping. There has been other data that the number of children on FARMS has substantially increased in the past several years. The 'Montgomery County Stagnation' thread had data on how Montgomery County is not attracting business and growing poorer. The yearly budget shortfalls are an outcome of this.

I would suspect that the number of affluent white and minority residents opting for private has substantially increased from 2011 to 2017. The number of private and parochial schools has been growing in both the east and west sides of the county. My oldest started 1st grade the year before 2.0 rolled out. We did Montessori K and she was 1 of only 5 that stayed. When my youngest went to K five years late, the Montessori K program was full  - around 50-70 kids while the local MCPS school had to cut K classes. Several daycare/preschool centers in the area opened up K-2 programs which filled up. From talking with neighbors most planned to re-enter at some point near high school but many stayed out. [/quote]

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