For each cluster with a high school IB program, which middle schools do not have an IB program? What would be the cost to add a middle year IB program at each of these schools?

Question#: 45

BUDGET PAGE REFERENCE: 1-11 and 4-22

ANSWER:

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) is a Grades 6–10 program.  Costs vary from year-to-year based on the number of staff members requiring professional development and the IB fees charged.  On average, adding an MYP at one middle school for FY 2014 would cost $117,493.  This includes $65,018 for substitutes, professional part-time, travel for staff development, dues and registration fees, and instructional materials; and $52,475 for a 0.8 teacher coordinator position, including employee benefits.  Adding an MYP for Grades 9 and 10 students at a high school where an IB Diploma Programme (DP) already exists would cost $71,856 in FY 2014. This includes $32,509 for substitutes, professional part-time, travel for staff development, dues and registration fees, and instructional materials; and $39,356 for a 0.6 teacher coordinator position, including employee benefits. 

The table below shows the high schools that currently have an IB DP without an MYP feeder and the annual cost of adding a Grades 6–10 MYP.  Three of our IB DPs are part of student-choice consortia––the Northeast Consortium (NEC) or the Downcounty Consortium (DCC). Students entering these high schools may feed from a number of middle schools.

 

High School

Middle Schools

Costs

1.

Seneca Valley High School

Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School

Roberto W. Clemente Middle School

Seneca Valley High School (Grades 9 and 10)

$117, 493—cost of adding one middle school
$234,986—cost of adding two middle schools
$306,842—cost of adding two middle schools and the MYP in Grades 9 and 10 in the high school

2.

Springbrook High School (NEC)

 

Benjamin Banneker Middle School

Briggs Chaney Middle School

William H. Farquhar Middle School

White Oak Middle School

 

$117, 493—cost of adding one middle school
$234,986—cost of adding two middle schools
$352,479—cost of adding three middle schools
$469,972—cost of adding four middle schools

3.

Rockville High School

Earl B. Wood Middle School

Rockville High School (Grades 9 and 10)

$117, 493—cost of adding one middle school
$189,349—cost of adding one middle school and the MYP in Grades 9 and 10 in the high school

4.

John F. Kennedy High School
and
Albert Einstein High School
(DCC)

There are seven other feeder middle schools in the DCC that do not have an MYP.

Mario Loiederman Middle School
Argyle Middle School
Eastern Middle School
E. Brooke Lee Middle School
Parkland Middle School
Sligo Middle School
Takoma Park Middle School

$143,712—cost of adding the MYP in Grades 9 and 10 at both IB high schools

 

$117, 493—cost of adding one middle school
$234,986—cost of adding two middle schools
$352,479—cost of adding three middle schools
$469,972—cost of adding four middle schools
$587,465—cost of adding five middle schools
$704,958—cost of adding six middle schools
$822,451—cost of adding seven middle schools

Total annual cost of adding MYP to
schools that feed existing IB DPs
(4 high school MYP and 14 middle school MYP)

$1,932,335