Montgomery County Public School Graduates and Montgomery County Residents

This fall, one-in-four (25.4%) of last year’s MCPS graduates enrolled at the College. This percentage, or “share,” is down about one percentage point from last year’s 26.3% “share.” While the MCPS Class of 2004 increased by 1.5% over the previous year’s class, the number of graduates attending the College dropped by 46 students (2.0%).

Gaithersburg (n=159), Montgomery Blair (n=150), Magruder (n=150), and Watkins Mill (n=141) were the high schools that sent the largest number of their Class of 2004 graduates to the College. As a proportion of the individual high schools’ graduating classes that attended the College in the fall 2004 semester, Wheaton led with 43.2%, followed by Gaithersburg (37.7%), Einstein (34.5%), Northwest (34.2%), and Seneca Valley (34.2%). Only six MCPS high schools sent fewer than one-in-five of their 2004 graduates to the College in the fall semester.

The College’s draw rate from recent graduates of “Up-County” high schools (31.2% of graduates) was greater than the draw rate from “Down-County” (25.6%) and “Mid-County” (21.9%) high schools.

About four-in-ten of the county residents enrolled this fall live in the “upper” or “middle” regions of the county (39.8% and 38.3%, respectively), while one-in-five (21.0%) live “down-county.”

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