Analysis

Resources, provision, and context across MCPS schools

These pages cover resource allocation, school provision, policy benchmarks, and context. Public data suppresses small groups and omits detail such as disability category and service intensity, so the pages show the patterns the data can support and note where it runs out.

Special education provision

IEP/SWD and 504 identification, inclusion/LRE, SPED staffing, and apparent caseload, without ranking schools by SWD achievement gaps.

Special education provision varies across MCPS schools

Staffing and student need

Enrollment-adjusted staffing trends, staffing mix, and how resource allocation lines up with school need.

Classroom teacher staffing fell faster than enrollment while support roles grew

Class size vs MCPS targets

Reported class sizes compared with MCPS class-size targets, separated by elementary and secondary context.

Reported class sizes run below MCPS's own targets in every category

Achievement in context

Income, economic disadvantage, multilingual learners, disabilities, and absenteeism as context for achievement comparisons.

Student needs, not neighborhood income, explain school score differences

Explorer

Income and housing map

The attendance-zone map remains available as a geographic explorer for income, home values, poverty, and education.

Open map

How to read these pages

  • Neighborhood measures describe attendance areas, not necessarily enrolled students.
  • Suppressed values are withheld for privacy and should not be read as zero.
  • Cross-school patterns are observational; they do not prove what caused an outcome.
  • Headlines and numbers come from generated bundle artifacts, not hand-entered page copy.

Source: MSDE, MCPS School Profiles, U.S. Census ACS, analytics bundle · Updated: 2025 / 2024