SchoolsFriday, November 13
Montgomery Public Schools earns its highest state report card score yet
The Daily Montgomery team
If you have a student in Montgomery Public Schools, here's the headline: the district earned an overall score of 76 on the state's latest report card. That's its highest annual score and up from 75 last year. Statewide, the state gave its 155 school systems an 88, a B.
MPS climbed, though the state's score is still higher
- 76
- overall score for MPS, its highest yet
- 88
- overall score the state gave its 155 school systems
- 5
- MPS campuses exited the state's priority list
- 9
- MPS schools raised their overall letter grades
- Graduation rate: 82%
- Floyd Middle Magnet and Carver Elementary Arts Magnet: B to A
- Pintlala and Catoma elementaries: D to B; King Elementary: C to B
- Forest Avenue Academic Magnet kept its 100; three schools earned 99
Chronic absenteeism fell from 25% to 22%, the district's lowest rate, and the college and career readiness score climbed from 63.93% to 76.39%. Superintendent Zickeyous Byrd said, "This report card reflects real progress built one classroom at a time." MPS is building on it with Pathway to a B & Beyond, a campaign that expands magnet programs and signature academies.
College and career readiness rose as chronic absenteeism fell
MPS percentages in the state report card
EarlierLatest report
College & career 63.9%Absenteeism 25.0%
76.4% +12.5 pts22.0% −3 pts