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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]USNWR

Maryland
#23 in Education overall
#23 Pre-K-12
#15 Higher Education[/quote]

These kinds of rankings are useless. Schools vary throughout the state depending on where you live. You are going to get higher ranked schools closer to DC in places like Bethesda (some of the highest in the nation). As far as higher education goes, again it depends on where you are going to college. UMD College Park has some highly ranked degree programs, many in the top 5. Being #15 overall is good in any case. [/quote]

+1. People who are disparaging FL schools are comparing the best MOCO schools to the schools in poor areas in FL. We moved to one of the best school districts in FL and our elementary is far superior to the JKLM that we left. Our HS is so much better than Jackson-Reed too. For one thing it's a lot safer, but the academics and sports are better too. The FL schools are student-focused, not teacher-focused like DCPS. It's a viewpoint that affects everything.[/quote]

It’s amazing how hard people on this board work to avoid acknowledging the disastrous effects of the school Covid policies in the DMV. They keep living in the pre-Covid world, before DMV schools slid down in test scores and rankings and the Red states moved up. So far, the biggest impact is in the elementary school years, but that is going to echo for at least the next decade as the kids who started school during Covid move through the system.

FL ranks 4th in the Nation in 4th grade math scores, while DC is only saved from being last by NM and Puerto Rico. Maryland ranks below both Alabama and Mississippi, btw. FL is #3 in reading. MS is #21 in reading. Not only did they open earlier during Covid, MS has done away with social promotion in lower grades and it has been immensely successful. You won’t hear about it much, though, since it’s not a fashionable approach. DC is 5 from last place and MD is 13 from the bottom. 58% of 4th graders in MD read at a basic level. 31% are at or above proficient. MS is 63/31%. AL is 59/28%. DC is 50/26%. FL is 71/39%.

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?chort=1&sub=MAT&sj=&sfj=NP&st=MN&year=2022R3[/quote]

In DC metro diff. districts have diff scores.[/quote]

You don’t think that’s true of FL?[/quote]

Maybe disparity is more here and there are more kids in poorly performing schools/districts vs. in FL there might be more kids in average performing schools/districts. [/quote]

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