MCPS Parent Preference “Survey” Responses School By School Breakdown – Full MPIA Data – Analysis Part 2

Because of the depth of this data, there will be a Part 3 with more analysis. You can see Part 1 Here which was focused on demographics.

Note: This Data was obtained by a MPIA request. It is dated December 8 and schools have been working to get responses from everyone.

Initially, here are some things stood out out of overall data:

Large number of non-responses

There are a large number of students who didn’t respond at a lot of schools. 42.5% of all schools had a non-response rate of at least 20%. This peaked at the High School level with 66.7%.

  • Some may have left no response because they were told the default is virtual.
  • These are the results from December so more responses may have come in since with schools making an effort to get a better idea of their needs

Schools where more selected in person than virtual

Overall, 44% of schools had more students select partial in person option than virtual (not including previously mentioned non responses)

  • This stat peaked at Elementary School level (45.19%) and was lower at higher ages (43.18% and 38.10% for MS and HS respectively)

Schools that had over 50% select in person

Although it is not a majority of schools, there are 26.5% of all Schools that have over 50% of students select partial in person

  • This is based on 50% of all students not 50% of those that responded
  • There are more than twice the number of schools at the Elementary level than at the High School level that have this issue
  • This has the potential to make it harder to do hybrid in person due to the higher number of students wanting to return
  • Some of these students may end up in buildings less or potentially other schools (though I have seen no plans for anything like that)
  • Some may have selected in person and will opt out once they know more details. Opting for in person parents were told was the only way to have a spot in person if they end up wanting it.

Spreadsheet

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Full Data Files and MPIA Response

Here is the full spreadsheet you can download, add your own filters, criteria and such.

schools_parent_surveyDownload

Here is the PDF of the MPIA response for school by school results of the Family Preference Survey.

MPIA-FY21-153-Response-Data

MPIA FY21-153 Response DataDownload

Caitlynn Peetz of Bethesda Beat also did a neat visualization of this data in her article here.