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Advanced |
Advanced Placement (AP) tests are part of a College Board program available to high school students. Scores on these tests can be used by students to earn credit or advanced standing in college. Usually a minimum score of 3 is needed to achieve this goal. International Baccalaureate (IB) tests are part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme available to students in participating schools. Scores on these tests can be used by students to earn credit or advanced standing in college. Usually a minimum score of 4 is needed to achieve this goal. |
Office of Shared Accountability |
Alternative |
Alternative Programs (AP) provides an instructional program and services to students who have become disengaged with the educational process. The school is designed to meet the unique needs of each student. It provides a multi-model approach to instruction which focuses on the Montgomery County Public Schools’ core competencies for the 21st century: social emotional |
Alternative Education Programs at the Blair G. Ewing Center:
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Area Associate Superintendent of School |
Responsible for supervising and evaluating principals at the elementary, middle, or high school level. |
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Attendance Rate |
The average daily attendance for a given year is based on the aggregate number of enrolled, Grades 1 through 12 students who are present in school each day from the first day of school through end of school year. The percentage average daily attendance is calculated by dividing the aggregate number of students in attendance by the aggregate number of students in membership for the same time frame. |
MSDE Maryland Report Card at http://mdreportcard.org/ |
Average Class Size— Elementary |
The regular student enrollment in Kindergarten–Grade 5 divided by the number of attendance sections for each school. |
Office of the Associate Superintendent of Finance |
Average Class |
The regular student enrollment divided by the number of classes, excluding special education, reported for two areas: English (required courses) and all other academic subjects (Non-Required English, ELD, Math, Science, Social Studies and World Languages). |
Office of the Associate Superintendent of Finance |
Capacity |
The number of students who can be accommodated in the building, based on an allocation of space for different grades and types of programs. |
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Cluster |
The geographic grouping of schools within a defined attendance area that includes a high school and the elementary and middle schools which send students to that high school. |
Regulation FAA-RA, |
DIBELS/ Lectura: Grade K Early Literacy Skills |
This Academic Milestone measure in The Pathway to College, Career, and Community Readiness provides the number and percent of kindergarten students who have a Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literary Skills (DIBELS) composite score of 420 or higher, or a Lectura composite score of 389 or higher in the spring season. |
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Downcounty |
The Downcounty Consortium (DCC) is comprise of Montgomery Blair, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Northwood, and Wheaton high schools. Students entering high school participate in a choice process to rank, in order of preference, their choice of high school based on an academy program. School assignments are made using a computerized lottery process that considers student choice, base school, sibling link, available space, and socioeconomic status. |
Division of Consortia Choice and Application Program |
Dropout Rate |
The four-year adjusted cohort dropout rate is defined as the number of students that terminate formal education, for any reason other than death, within the four-year period divided by the number of students that form the adjusted cohort. The school years are defined as the first day of the school year through the summer to the first day of the following school year. Student activity that occurs during the summer, including summer withdrawals, are included in the prior year’s data. The four–year adjusted cohort dropout rate is calculated by dividing the number of students that terminate formal education for any reason other than death by the sum of the number of first time ninth graders, the number of students that transfer in, and the number of students that transfer out, emigrate, or die during the four-year period. |
MSDE Maryland Report Card at http://mdreportcard.org/ |
Employee |
Employee benefits include payments made by MCPS for the employer portion of social security taxes, retirement contribution, group health, and life insurance. For the purpose of this document, employee benefits are a calculated estimate based on staff salaries at individual schools. This total was adjusted for vacancies using a school average of the specific employee grouping (administrative, teachers, other professional, instructional support, other support, building services). |
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Enrollment |
The number of students enrolled in school as of September 30th, of the reporting school year. Disaggregated figures are a percentage of the total enrollment. |
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EML Enrollment |
The Emergent Multilingual Learners Enrollment is the percentage of students eligible for English Language Development (ELD) services including students whose families have refused ELD services as of October 31st, divided by the official total student enrollment as of September 30th of the reporting school year. This percentage may differ from the EML percentage reported in the requested Capital Budget, due to different “as of” reporting dates. |
Department of English Learners & Multilingual Education (DELME) |
EML Subgroup |
The Emergent Multilingual Learner (EML) subgroup includes students K-12 who are eligible to receive English Language Development (ELD) services based on the results of the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs assessment. These students include students whose families have refused ELD services. |
Department of English Learners & Multilingual Education (DELME) |
FARMS Enrollment |
The Free and Reduced-price Meals System (FARMS) enrollment is the percentage of students eligible for FARMS services as of October 31st, divided by the official total student enrollment as of September 30th of the reporting school year. This percentage may differ from the FARMS percentage reported in the requested Capital Budget due to “as of” reporting dates. |
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FARMS now or in the past |
Students who are now or have ever received FARMS services as of October 31st of the reporting school year. |
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Feeder School |
A school that sends its students to another school for the next grade level (e.g., a middle school that feeds a high school by sending its eighth graders to the high school for ninth grade). Most schools “feed” 100 percent of their students to the same school. Those in which the population goes on to more than one school are shown in the profiles of each school. |
Division of Capital Planning |
Future Capacity |
Any projected change in a school’s capacity based on the latest capital improvements program requested by the Montgomery County Board of Education and funded by the County Council. This capacity would be in place within the coming six-year capital programming period. |
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Graduation |
The four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate is the number of students that graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the number of students that form the adjusted cohort for the graduating class. For any given cohort, students who are entering Grade 9 for the first time form a cohort that is subsequently “adjusted” by adding any students who transfer into the cohort later during the next three years and subtracting any students who transfer out, emigrate to another country, or die during that same period. The four-year graduation rate is calculated by dividing the number of students that graduate within four years, including the summer following their fourth year of high school, with a regular high school diploma by the number of students that form the adjusted cohort for that graduating class. Students who drop out of high school remain in the adjusted cohort – that is, the denominator of the cohort graduation rate calculation. |
MSDE Maryland Report Card at http://mdreportcard.org/ |
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) |
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) refers to the mandate in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004), which states that children with disabilities are to be educated to the maximum extent appropriate with nondisabled peers. MCPS reports LRE settings based on the percent of time a student is educated inside the general education setting. LRE A = Inside General Education Settings 80% or More. |
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MAP-R: Grade 3 Reading |
This Academic Milestone measure in The Pathway to College, Career, and Community Readiness provides the number and percent of Grade 3 students who have a Lexile score of 600L or higher as measured by the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measure of Academic Progress (MAP)-Reading assessment during the spring season. |
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MCAP: Grade Proficiency in Math and ELA |
This Academic Milestone measure in The Pathway to College, Career, and Community Readiness provides the percent of Grade 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 students with proficiency level of 3 or higher in both English/Language Arts AND mathematics as measured by the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) test or Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) Assessment. |
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Middle School Magnet Consortium |
The Middle School Magnet Consortium (MSMC) is comprised of |
Division of Consortia Choice and Application Program |
Mobility Rate |
The student mobility rate is calculated by dividing the sum of entrants and withdrawals by the average daily membership. Entrants: The number and percentage of students entering (transferring in or re-entering) school during the September to June school year after the first day of school. A student moving from one school to another within the same school district as a result of promotion is not considered to be an entrant for mobility purposes unless the student entered school after the first day. Withdrawals: The number and percentage of students withdrawing (transfers and terminations) for any reason during the September to June school year after the first day of school. |
MSDE Maryland Report Card at http://mdreportcard.org/ |
Northeast |
The Northeast Consortium (NEC) is comprised of James Hubert Blake, Paint Branch, and Springbrook high schools. NEC students entering high school participate in a choice process to rank, in order of preference, their choice of high school based on a signature program. School assignments are made by using a computerized lottery process that considers student choice, base school, sibling link, available space, and socioeconomic status. |
Division of Consortia Choice and Application Program Services |
Race/Ethnic Subgroups & Composition |
The U.S. Department of Education required the state education departments to collect and report information on race and ethnicity that is in accordance with federal standards by the 2010–2011 school year. The federal standards require a two-part question on race and ethnicity in data collection and result in the following racial/ethnic subgroups for reporting data. Subgroup abbreviations are also shown.
Racial/ethnic composition percentages are reported in Schools at a Glance for students, professional staff, and supporting services staff. The student composition percentages are reported for the students enrolled as of September 30th of the reporting school year. |
Maryland State Department of Education http://marylandpublicschools.org |
Receiving School |
A school that receives students from another school after promotion (e.g., a high school that receives middle school students promoted from Grade 8 to Grade 9). Receiving schools are shown as part of each school’s profile. |
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Salaries: Professional and Supporting Services |
The actual annual salaries of staff at the school as of October 31st of the reporting school year. This total does not include future step increments, General Wage Adjustments (GWA), or longevities and is adjusted for vacancies using a school average of the specific employee grouping (administrative, teachers, other professional, instructional support, other support, building services). |
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/cfo/">Office of the Associate Superintendent of Finance |
SAT |
The SAT is a college entrance exam accepted by several hundred colleges across the United States as part of the admissions process. In 2018-2019 school year, the College Board redesigned the SAT with the goal of measuring essential skills for college and career as well as relating the test content to everyday learning in classrooms. The new SAT consists of two sections: Evidenced-based Reading and Writing (ERW) and Math. Each section score ranges from 200 to 800 and the total score of the two sections ranges from 400 to 1600. Given that the scale of the SAT has changed, the College Board does not recommend comparing the performance between the new SAT and the pre-2017 SAT. Students are considered college-and-career-ready when their SAT section score for Math meets or exceeds 530 and the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score meets or exceeds 480. |
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School Hours |
The regular school day with a designated starting time and ending time as defined by the local school system. |
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Special School |
A separate MCPS school providing services for children with moderate to severe special education needs. The individualized Education Program (IEP) team determines that special education services must be delivered outside of the comprehensive school setting. The special schools are: Stephen Knolls School, Longview School (co-located with Spark M. Matsunaga Elementary School), John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents (RICA), Rock Terrace (co-located with Tilden Middle School), and Carl Sandburg Learning Center (co-located with Maryvale Elementary School). |
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Spec. Ed. Enrollment |
The Special Education (Spec. Ed.) enrollment is the percentage of students eligible for special education services, as of October 31st divided by the official total student enrollment as of September 30th, of the reporting school year. This percentage may differ from the Spec. Ed. percentage reported in the requested Capital Budget, due to different “as of” reporting dates. |
Individuals with Disabilities |
Student/ Instructional Staff Ratio |
The Student/Instructional Staff Ratio is calculated by dividing the weighted enrollment as of September 30th, of the reporting school year by the number of instructional staff. Weighted enrollment includes enrollment in Grades K-12 plus ½ the pre-K enrollment. Instructional staff is determined as all school-based instructional Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) positions (includes staff under the Teachers, Other Professional, and Instructional Support categories). |
Office of Shared Accountability Staffing allocations are from the Office of the Associate Superintendent of Finance |
Support, Art, Music, or Resource |
The number of classrooms at an elementary school designated for support purposes (not regular classrooms) such as Art, Music, or Resource. Sometimes they are used for other support uses. |
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Suspension Rate |
The unduplicated count of the number of students suspended divided by the June 30th total enrollment. |
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Teaching Station |
The number of classrooms within the school building which does not include relocatable classrooms. |
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University System of Maryland Entrance |
MSDE calculates the percentage of students meeting the University System of Maryland entrance requirements. Requirements for admission to the University System of Maryland are set by the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland and, at a minimum, include a cumulative grade point equivalent to a C or better, accumulated course credits in English (4 credits), social studies (3 credits), biological and physical sciences (3 credits), mathematics (4 credits), world languages or advanced technology (2 credits), and a high school diploma. |
MSDE Maryland Report Card at http://mdreportcard.org/ University System of Maryland at http://www.usmd.edu/ |