BCC has a very small number of paraeducators. They have trouble hiring and retaining paraeducators. So many vacancies. Without paras, it doesn't spend money on the kids with IEPs who don't get the services. Maybe that is why they don't spend as much. I would advocate to send your child with serious special needs to a different MCPS high school.

Is the spending-per-pupil data same for this year?

Anonymous wrote:BCC - 13850
WJ - 13691

WJ is the lowest.

Schools on the west side get the least, and that's probably, in part, due to FARMs rate.

FARMS plays into it, but the number of kids with IEPs is also absolutely in the mix. Contra what a PP said, I don't think this is about rich kids getting accommodations - it's about schools that have really expensive programs. This isn't said with rancor. I think it is good and correct that programs like LFI exist, but it's not a coincidence that schools with those programs have a higher per pupil allocation.

BCC - 13850
WJ - 13691

WJ is the lowest.

Schools on the west side get the least, and that's probably, in part, due to FARMs rate.

Anonymous wrote:What is iep???

How does is drive your pp spending?

Individualized Education Plan. The specific plan a kid with special ed needs has. Almost always requires substantially more resources to implement and tons of paperwork to document.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But Whitman has less Poor/FARMS. Why are they getting more per pupil?

Whitman houses some of the county’s self contained programs for kids with significant disabilities. BCC does not.

Whitman is 10.9% special ed.

There's a much higher percentage of children with 504/IEPs at wealthy schools because they don't go undiagnosed.

What is iep???

How does is drive your pp spending?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But Whitman has less Poor/FARMS. Why are they getting more per pupil?

Whitman houses some of the county’s self contained programs for kids with significant disabilities. BCC does not.

Whitman is 10.9% special ed.

While the difference between the BCC and Whitman special ed rates is not actually that large, the programs/student population is pretty different. Whitman has one self-contained program (LFI) and one semi-mainstreamed but expensive program (SESES).

At the base level, your average kid without an IEP has the same PP allocation at each of those schools. It's just that Whitman has a population of kids that cost $40K to teach per year, and that's pulling the overall number way up.

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Anonymous wrote:But Whitman has less Poor/FARMS. Why are they getting more per pupil?

Whitman houses some of the county’s self contained programs for kids with significant disabilities. BCC does not.

Whitman is 10.9% special ed.

BCC is 22.5% FARMS and 8.5% Special Ed. It's also 51% non-white.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04406.pdf

Anonymous wrote:But Whitman has less Poor/FARMS. Why are they getting more per pupil?

Whitman houses some of the county’s self contained programs for kids with significant disabilities. BCC does not.

Anonymous wrote:But Whitman has less Poor/FARMS. Why are they getting more per pupil?

Whitman has several special Ed programs.

Anonymous wrote:
Well, OP, don't you look like a moron.

No. OP dos not look like a moron. Why would you say that?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But Whitman has less Poor/FARMS. Why are they getting more per pupil?

It’s probably iep.

Yes, IEPs are more frequently diagnosed at wealthier schools.