State Funding Per-Pupil
The state’s per-pupil funding for Caroline County Public Schools increased 40.3% between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2024. That’s the fifth largest increase among all 24 Maryland public school districts.
Per-pupil funding is based on a formula that utilizes the district’s total enrollment and the characteristics of its students. It’s too soon to know what the per-pupil funding level will be in the later years of the Blueprint.
Here’s the district’s initial Blueprint Implementation Plan. And here’s what the state Accountability and Implementation Board – which oversees the Blueprint – had to say about Caroline County Public Schools’ Blueprint Implementation Plan:
Strengths:
- Caroline County has developed a comprehensive plan to increase pre-K enrollment for 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds.
- The district has a “robust” plan to expand and diversify its teacher workforce.
- Caroline County has strong K-12 curriculum plans for both math and literacy.
- The college and career readiness plan does a good job in serving diverse student populations.
Needs improvement:
- The district will work with the Accountability and Implementation Board to find ways to recruit and support educators from underrepresented communities as they pursue their National Board Certification.
- The district is developing a career ladder to help teachers form a more coherent step by step plan. District officials are in need of technical assistance and guidance as they do this.
- The timeline for the county’s literacy plan, currently set at three years, “could be more ambitious.”
- The district is attempting to integrate regular peer collaborative work during the normal school week hours.
- The district wants to have better advertising and data to show the high-wage, high-skill opportunities and jobs that career and technical education pathways provide.
- Sam Jane