Arundel Middle

As a large junior high in Odenton, Maryland, Arundel Middle instructs 1,312 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 72% larger than the state mean of about 764.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 85,029 students; Arundel Middle is among them.

Looking at the student body, Arundel Middle lists that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Black, 15% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Arundel Middle reports 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Anne Arundel County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arundel Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.7%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of -8.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Anne Arundel County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,911, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Anne Arundel County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), of which Arundel Middle is one.

Arundel High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Arundel Middle. On composite proficiency, Arundel Middle comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

Arundel Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 27%: 1,032 students in 2018 compared to 1,312 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 37% across the same window.

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