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Enrollment
1,071
Middle
DISTRICT 913 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240039000678
Aberdeen Middle
111 Mount Royal Ave, Aberdeen, MD 21001 · (410) 273-5510 · Harford County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,071 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Maryland public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
88 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
658 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 340 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 370 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 361 | 34% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
45.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
16.5%
MD avg 34.8% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.5% | 16.5% |
| 2023-24 | 44.7% | 11.6% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Aberdeen Middle
Aberdeen Middle's state test result (29.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen Middle this school | 1,071 | 61.4% | 29.6% |
| Bennett Middle Fruitland | 963 | 59.3% | 28.6% |
| Spring Ridge Middle Lexington Park | 913 | 63.7% | 31.8% |
| Old Mill Middle South Millersville | 1,173 | 57.5% | 37.5% |
| Salisbury Middle Salisbury | 847 | 61.3% | 31.6% |
| Edgewood Middle Edgewood | 936 | 69.2% | 26.5% |
Matched among Maryland middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Aberdeen Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Harford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #145 of 223 | #7 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.5% | #158 of 223 ▲ 18 | #7 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #132 of 223 ▼ 2 | #7 of 9 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,071 | #28 of 230 | #3 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #28 of 225 | #3 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.3% | #75 of 225 | #2 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.4% | #70 of 227 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #90 of 123 | #5 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,071
-133 (-11%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 1,049
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 15.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,071 | 87.5 | 12.2:1 | 61% (658) |
| 2023-24 | 1,058 | 87.8 | 12.0:1 | 62% (658) |
| 2022-23 | 1,082 | 88.3 | 12.3:1 | 63% (684) |
| 2020-21 | 1,204 | 80 | 15.1:1 | 59% (711) |
| 2017-18 | 1,126 | 80.3 | 14.0:1 | 53% (600) |
| 2015-16 | 1,184 | 80 | 14.8:1 | 56% (666) |
| 2010-11 | 1,087 | 83 | 13.1:1 | 52% (567) |
| 2000-01 | 1,227 | 80 | 15.3:1 | 36% (443) |
| 1990-91 | 1,049 | 63 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Aberdeen Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (1,126 to 1,071); teachers up 9% (80.3 to 87.5).
About Aberdeen Middle
Located in Aberdeen, Maryland, Aberdeen Middle is a mid-sized middle school. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 1,071 students. Middle schools in Maryland average about 764 students, which makes this school 40% larger than average.
The 55 schools of Harford County Public Schools, including Aberdeen Middle, enroll 37,771 students.
Black students account for 47% of enrollment at Aberdeen Middle, more than any other group. Other students are 28% White, 14% Hispanic, and 10% multiracial. By comparison, Harford County residents are about 14% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Aberdeen Middle scores 67%.
The school has 87.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.2 students per teacher. Statewide, middle schools in Maryland average 14.3:1. Of all students at Aberdeen Middle, 61% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Harford County is 39%.
Aberdeen Middle earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 30% of Maryland public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Aberdeen Middle falls in the middle 80% of Maryland schools: 29.6% actual against 37.9% predicted.
Harford County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $112,265, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 55 public schools in the county, enrolling about 37,771, Aberdeen Middle among them.
Center for Educational Opportunity is about 0.3 miles from Aberdeen Middle, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Aberdeen Middle holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 40.4% proficiency; Aberdeen Middle posts 29.6%.
The federal government classifies Aberdeen Middle's location as Suburb: Mid-size.
An 11% decrease took enrollment from 1,204 in 2020-21 to 1,071 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.1:1 to 12.2:1.
The allk12 page for Aberdeen Middle lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Harford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
263,757
Census ACS
Median income
$112,265
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
37,771 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harford County Public Schools
- Edgewood HighHigh · 1,440 students
- Aberdeen HighHigh · 1,396 students
- Bel Air HighHigh · 1,341 students
- C. Milton Wright HighHigh · 1,291 students
- North Harford HighHigh · 1,204 students
- Southampton MiddleMiddle · 1,192 students
Other schools in Aberdeen
- Aberdeen HighHigh · 1,396 students
- G. Lisby Elementary at HillsdaleElementary · 528 students
- Bakerfield ElementaryElementary · 460 students
- Halls Cross Roads ElementaryElementary · 425 students
- Swan Creek SchoolCombined · 368 students
- Center for Educational OpportunityHigh · 122 students
Other Aberdeen Middle schools
One other US public school is named Aberdeen Middle. Aberdeen Middle is the largest of the 2.
- ABERDEEN MIDDLE SCHOOLABERDEEN, ID · 138 students
Nearby schools
- Center for Educational Opportunity0.3 mi · 122
- Swan Creek School0.3 mi · 368
- Aberdeen High0.3 mi · 1,396
- Bakerfield Elementary0.4 mi · 460
- Halls Cross Roads Elementary0.9 mi · 425
- G. Lisby Elementary at Hillsdale1.1 mi · 528
Frequently asked questions
About Aberdeen MiddleHow many students attend Aberdeen Middle?
Aberdeen Middle enrolls approximately 1,071 students in grades 06-08.
Is Aberdeen Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Aberdeen Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Aberdeen Middle?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Aberdeen Middle.
How diverse is Aberdeen Middle?
Aberdeen Middle reports a student body of 28% White, 14% Hispanic, 47% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Aberdeen Middle?
Aberdeen Middle is overseen by Harford County Public Schools in Harford County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.