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GOAL 2: Provide an Effective Instructional Program
MILESTONE 5: All schools will meet or exceed local and state standards for attendance.
DATA POINT: Ineligibility for Extracurricular Activities
OVERVIEW
MCPS believes an effective instructional program includes
extracurricular activities that contribute to a well-rounded
education and offers middle and high school students opportunities
to participate in a variety of athletic and nonathletic
extracurricular activities throughout the school year. Certain
extracurricular activities require academic eligibility. However,
there is an expectation that there are extracurricular activities
with open enrollment in all MCPS high schools, thereby
creating opportunities for all students to participate regardless
of academic eligibility. In order to participate in extracurricular
activities that require academic eligibility, students must
maintain a marking period average of 2.0 or higher and fail
no more than one course per marking period. Students who
do not meet these academic standards are ineligible to participate
in some extracurricular activities during the subsequent
marking period.
Data are reported for the percentage of middle school and
high school students ineligible for 3 or 4 marking periods
within a school year. During 2010, 5.3 percent of all middle
school students and 12.5 percent of all high school
students were ineligible for extracurricular activities.
African American and Hispanic students had higher
ineligibility rates than Asian American and White students in
both middle and high schools. Male students were ineligible
at a higher rate than female students in middle and high
schools. Among all middle and high school students, students
receiving Free and Reduced-price Meal System (FARMS) or
special education services had higher rates of ineligibility than
students receiving English for Speakers of Other Languages
(ESOL) services.
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