Benjamin Stoddert Middle School

Benjamin Stoddert Middle School is one of the medium-sized intermediate schools in Waldorf, Maryland, overseen by Charles County Public Schools, with 920 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 20% bigger than the state mean of about 764.

Charles County Public Schools runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 28,162 students. Benjamin Stoddert Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Charles County as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Charles County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.8%; actual is 18.1%, a gap of -20.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Charles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $122,816 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Benjamin Stoddert Middle School is one of 40 public schools in Charles County (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students).

Nearest neighbor: Eva Turner Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Benjamin Stoddert Middle School. On composite proficiency, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 24%: 741 students in 2018 compared to 920 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.