Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners
enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between
different racial and ethnic
groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.