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.