FY 2021 Educational Facilities Master Plan

first grade-eligible” births based on current age requirements for these two grades. c. Compulsory Attendance Considerations : Increased age of compulsory attendance to age 18 for school year 2018/2019 and beyond as stipulated by legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly in 2012 (SB362). Enclosed are the following materials for your review: 1. Public school enrollments by grade a. Historical enrollments, 2009 - 2019 b. Historical 2019 and projected 2020 - 2029 enrollments 2. Historical grade succession ratios 3. Alternative public school enrollment projection scenarios based on the historical grade succession ratios (item 2 above). The ratios selected in preparing the public school enrollment scenarios, item 1b above, are underlined. 4. The ratios of kindergarten-to-births and first grade-to-births, historical and projected. This page also includes birth data transformed from calendar year to kindergarten-eligible births and first grade-to-birth ratios (2020 to 2029), used in preparing the public school enrollment projections (item 1b above). The Maryland Department of Planning recognizes MSDE K-12 September 2019 enrollment figures as the official enrollment for 2019. We are providing this information electronically to you and your Education Facilities Planner as an aid in your school enrollment planning processes. Projections used in your Educational Facilities Master Plan (EFMP) must be within five percent of those generated by our Department. Please send your school system's official written agreement or disagreement with Planning’s projection. Your reply must include a copy of your enrollment projectio s. If you disagree with the Planning’s projection, your reply must also include an explanation of the methodology you used to prepare your projections. The deadline for your reply is May 8, 2020. In addition to hardcopies mailed to Planning, you also may send electronic copies to Planning in care of Cassandra Malloy at cassandra.malloy@maryland.gov. This will help to expedite review.

Wicomico County Public Schools Educational Facilities Master Plan FY 2021

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