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All news →Montgomery Update: Gun Safety, White Oak Funds, and TPS Help
Gun safety zones stay at schools, White Oak gets $420M in financing, and Haitian TPS families can get help.
Salvadoran American Festival returns Aug. 2 with music, food
Live music, Salvadoran food, cultural dances, and family activities come together Sunday, Aug. 2—plus local community services.
MCPS Top 100 Salaries: Superintendent Earns Over $400K
FY2026 payroll: Superintendent Thomas Taylor topped $400,000 — nearly $120,000 more than the second-highest paid MCPS employee.
Polk v. MCPS: Supreme Court Review Sought in Pronoun Policy Case
A substitute teacher's lawsuit over MCPS's gender pronoun and parental notification rules may reach the Supreme Court.
Maryland Teen Survey Shows Vaping and Cannabis Use Down
Statewide survey finds improvements in teen mental health and substance use, though bullying and dating violence remain concerns.
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Spotlight on MCPS
The reference side of the site — every public school in the county by the numbers: test scores, demographics, neighborhoods, and how students get to class.
District dashboard
Six years of county trends — scores, graduation, absenteeism, spending, by student group.
School profiles
Academics, demographics, climate, and the surrounding neighborhood for all 209 schools.
Cross-school analysis
Income vs. achievement, race and disability gaps, and special education across schools.
Bus routes
Stops, times, and maps for geocoded MCPS bus routes — find the stop near you.
Analysis
Staffing, class size, special-education provision, and achievement in context
Cross-school analyses built from public data, with the limits of that data stated plainly.
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The 2025-26 enrollment numbers steering the CIP
MCPS enrolled 156,050 students this year, down for the third straight year. Here's what's driving it and why the capital budget hinges on the number.
Explainer
Reading the special-education numbers
Inclusion, caseload, and staffing — what the special-education section on each profile measures, and why a raw proficiency gap isn't the number to judge a school by.