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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School this year?
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Enrollment
920
Middle
DISTRICT 689 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240027000583
Benjamin Stoddert Middle School
2040 Saint Thomas Dr, Waldorf, MD 20602 · (301) 645-1334 · Charles County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL920 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Maryland public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
17.0:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
550 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 279 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 329 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 312 | 34% |
Student demographics
52%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
26.9%
MD avg 50.6% . +3.6pp since 2023
Math
12.1%
MD avg 34.8% . +2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.9% | 12.1% |
| 2023-24 | 23.3% | 10.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Benjamin Stoddert Middle School
Benjamin Stoddert Middle School's state test result (18.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Stoddert Middle School this school | 920 | 59.8% | 18.1% |
| Pikesville Middle Baltimore | 943 | 57.6% | 21.9% |
| Samuel Ogle Middle Bowie | 806 | 55.3% | 35.5% |
| James Madison Middle UPPER MARLBORO | 800 | 63.5% | 24.0% |
| John Hanson Middle School Waldorf | 727 | 56.8% | 23.2% |
| Mattawoman Middle School Waldorf | 862 | 54.2% | 25.6% |
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 Benjamin Stoddert Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Charles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #207 of 223 | #9 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.1% | #186 of 223 ▲ 18 | #7 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #203 of 223 ▲ 7 | #9 of 9 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 920 | #61 of 230 | #2 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #205 of 225 | #7 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.4% | #144 of 225 | #6 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.8% | #79 of 227 | #2 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +24.2% | #20 of 95 | N/A |
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
920
+82 (+10%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 753
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 920 | 54 | 17.0:1 | 60% (550) |
| 2023-24 | 919 | 43 | 21.4:1 | 59% (544) |
| 2022-23 | 925 | 40 | 23.1:1 | 59% (544) |
| 2020-21 | 838 | 47 | 17.8:1 | 52% (434) |
| 2017-18 | 741 | 50.7 | 14.6:1 | 41% (303) |
| 2015-16 | 695 | 47 | 14.8:1 | 48% (333) |
| 2010-11 | 747 | 41 | 18.2:1 | 37% (277) |
| 2000-01 | 748 | 43 | 17.4:1 | 24% (176) |
| 1990-91 | 753 | 46 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin Stoddert Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 24% (741 to 920); teachers up 6% (50.7 to 54).
About Benjamin Stoddert Middle School
Benjamin Stoddert Middle School sits in Waldorf, Maryland, and is classified as a middle-grades school. Its enrollment is 920 students, spread over grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in Maryland enroll around 764, and this school is 20% larger than that mark.
Charles County Public Schools counts 38 schools and 28,162 students, including Benjamin Stoddert Middle School.
More than half of enrollment at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School is Black: 65%. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 4% White. The county population is about 49% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School scores 52%.
The school's 54 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.0:1. Middle schools in Maryland have an average ratio of 14.3:1. At Benjamin Stoddert Middle School, 60% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Charles County average 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School lands at F, ahead of 2% of Maryland public middle schools.
In Maryland, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 18.1% compared with a predicted 38.8%.
In the surrounding county, Charles County, the median household earns about $122,816 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Charles County's 40 public schools enroll about 28,162 students and include Benjamin Stoddert Middle School.
The closest school to Benjamin Stoddert Middle School is Eva Turner Elementary School, located about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Benjamin Stoddert Middle School's average proficiency of 18.1% compares with 29.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Mid-size).
In 2020-21, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School enrolled 838 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 920.
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Charles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
170,527
Census ACS
Median income
$122,816
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
28,162 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Charles County Public Schools
- North Point High SchoolHigh · 1,960 students
- St. Charles High SchoolHigh · 1,617 students
- Thomas Stone High SchoolHigh · 1,230 students
- La Plata High SchoolHigh · 1,217 students
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 1,216 students
- Maurice J. McDonough High SchoolHigh · 1,163 students
Other schools in Waldorf
- North Point High SchoolHigh · 1,960 students
- St. Charles High SchoolHigh · 1,617 students
- Thomas Stone High SchoolHigh · 1,230 students
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 1,216 students
- Theodore G. Davis Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- William A. Diggs Elementary SchoolElementary · 876 students
Other Benjamin Stoddert Middle schools
One other US public school is named Benjamin Stoddert Middle. Benjamin Stoddert Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Benjamin Stoddert MiddleTemple Hills, MD · 628 students
Nearby schools
- Eva Turner Elementary School0.5 mi · 494
- Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Elementary School0.8 mi · 497
- Mary B. Neal Elementary School1.1 mi · 626
- Thomas Stone High School1.1 mi · 1,230
- Dr. Gustavus Brown Elementary1.2 mi · 412
- Arthur Middleton Elementary School1.3 mi · 774
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin Stoddert Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School?
Benjamin Stoddert Middle School enrolls approximately 920 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Benjamin Stoddert Middle School serve?
Benjamin Stoddert Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School?
Approximately 17.0:1 students per teacher at Benjamin Stoddert Middle School.
How diverse is Benjamin Stoddert Middle School?
Benjamin Stoddert Middle School reports a student body of 4% White, 23% Hispanic, 65% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Benjamin Stoddert Middle School?
Benjamin Stoddert Middle School is overseen by Charles County Public Schools in Charles County.
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