February 25, 2024 Background and Source Data Public school enrollment numbers by Maryland county and by school level was determined for the school years: 2019-2020 was the last pre-pandemic school year, 2023-2024 is the current school year. School levels are: Data sources are official enrollment from the State of Maryland.Continue Reading
February 22, 2024 – MCPS Enrollment by Grade for the Past 5 Years Background and Source Data MCPS enrollment numbers by grade was determined for the school years: Data sources are: Results and Conclusions Enrollment numbers are shown. Enrollment varied from 10,348 (grade K, 2020-2021) to 15,262 (grade 9 2022-2023).Continue Reading
On Tuesday 5/2/2023, there was a virtual forum hosted by MCPS and featuring Dr. McKnight, Councilmember Jawando, Dr. Williams and BOE member Silvestre. Esther Wells live tweeted the meeting and her tweets have been cataloged into the piece below with some minor edits for clarity. Q: Budgets are in, whatContinue Reading
Background A few days ago, Fox5DC reported that “New evidence is showing that more people are moving out of Montgomery County and into Frederick County.” Montgomery County Exec Marc Elrich seemed to rebut this in a Twitter post where he quotes this website post which is a top Google hitContinue Reading
Background and Source Data Middle school enrollment in MCPS was analyzed for the years 2018 to 2022. Official enrollment numbers are found in the “Official Reports of Enrollment” on the MCPS Office of Shared Accountability web page. Results and Conclusions The number of students per year is shown. The yearContinue Reading
Background and Source Data Elementary school enrollment in MCPS was analyzed for the years 2018 to 2022. Official enrollment numbers are found in the “Official Reports of Enrollment” on the MCPS Office of Shared Accountability web page. Results and Conclusions The number of students per year is shown. The yearContinue Reading
Background Information Full report from Maryland Planning Department. The report tables are here. The 2021 version of this document is here. Historical Enrollment Data “Maryland’s 2021 public school enrollment of 853,307 is its lowest since 2015. Since 2000” – Public School Enrollment Projections 2022 -2031 Projections 2022 Projections 2021 ProjectionsContinue Reading