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Calvert High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Calvert High
Calvert High is a reasonably sized high school in Prince Frederick, Maryland, one of the schools within Calvert County Public Schools. The school enrolls 1,080 students in grades 9 through 12.
Calvert County Public Schools comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 14,849 students; Calvert High is among them.
On the student-mix side, Calvert High records that 58% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 20% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Calvert High has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at Calvert High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, Calvert High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.0%; this one delivers 41.7%.
In the broader community, census data for Calvert County shows median household earnings sit near $133,922, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 2%. Across Calvert County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,849 students), Calvert High is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Calvert County Alternative School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Calvert High. On composite proficiency, Calvert High comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Calvert High has shrank 12%, going from 1,227 students in 2018 to 1,080 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 65% to 58% over that span.
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