HCPSS MPIA Request #2025-044

Responsive to this request, in regard to students withdrawn from TRES in calendar year 2024, data on all withdraw codes between January 1, 2024, and present indicate there have been less than 10 total students withdrawn. HCPSS must protect against the potential disclosures of personally identifiable information about students as required by both the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students. In accordance, HCPSS follows the Maryland State Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics’ guidelines for protecting student privacy in public reporting and suppresses the following from responsive records: populations that fall below 10; percentages that are less than or equal to 5, or greater than or equal to 95; categories directly related to specific student records; and/or information that can reasonably identify an individual student or reveals information from an individual student’s record or could do so when combined with other publicly accessible data. As such, individual student circumstances, reasons, or communications regarding withdrawal are being withheld.