Between 2018 and 2025, 3rd-grade ELA proficiency on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program rose from 49.5% to 65%, 14.2 points above the state average.
From 2018 to 2023, ELA proficiency rates among historically underrepresented groups also climbed—scores for Black 3rd graders grew from 38% to nearly 44% proficient, and low-income Title I students rose from 32% to about 38%.
In May 2023, FCPS was honored by the Center for Model Schools as an Innovative District—1 of only 7 in the U.S.
In Maryland, a district's decade of effort to train more than 4000 educators on how the brain learns best—so they can apply cognitive science in their own classrooms—begins to pay off.
