Edgewood High

Edgewood High operates as a mid-tier 9-12 campus in Edgewood, Maryland, one of the schools within Harford County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,440 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 22% bigger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 1,185 students.

Within Harford County Public Schools, which oversees 55 schools and 37,771 students, Edgewood High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Edgewood High shows that the most-represented group is Black (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 26% White, 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the income-and-resources front, Edgewood High shows 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harford County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Edgewood High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of -7.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harford County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $112,265 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Edgewood High is one of 55 public schools in Harford County (combined enrollment of about 37,771 students).

Nearest neighbor: Edgewood Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Edgewood High at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 29.7%.

Edgewood High operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Edgewood High's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,403 (now 1,440). White enrollment moved from 36% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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