Baltimore County Schools is slipping to alarmingly low levels in student performance. During the first quarter of this school year, nearly a third of all high school students in Baltimore County earned a D or lower in Math or English.
Ryan Coleman, president of the Randallstown Chapter of the NAACP, says it’s time to sound the alarm.
“We keep hearing excuses,” said Coleman. “And I think the question is, when are we going to attack this head-on, and when are we going to see some progress?”
For years, Coleman says he’s watched student outcomes in Baltimore County Public Schools get progressively worse. In 2015, according to the Maryland State Department of Education, 34 percent of Baltimore County eighth graders scored proficient in math. By 2019, that number was down to 5 percent. Due to Covid, state testing was limited in 2020 and 2021. The 2022 results will be out later this month. But Project Baltimore has obtained data that shows student outcomes in Baltimore County have continued to fall.
