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Enrollment
698
Middle
DISTRICT 663 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240042001444
Ellicott Mills Middle
4445 Montgomery Rd, Ellicott City, MD 21043 · (410) 313-2839 · Howard County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL698 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Maryland public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
14.4:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
102 students
DISTRICT 29% · 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 | 227 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 238 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 233 | 33% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
79.1%
MD avg 50.6% . +11.6pp since 2023
Math
60.9%
MD avg 34.8% . +12.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.1% | 60.9% |
| 2023-24 | 67.5% | 48.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
63.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Ellicott Mills Middle
Ellicott Mills Middle's state test result (63.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellicott Mills Middle this school | 698 | 14.6% | 63.9% |
| Burleigh Manor Middle Ellicott City | 777 | 17.5% | 64.7% |
| Clarksville Middle Clarksville | 679 | 6.6% | 72.6% |
| Robert Frost Middle School Rockville | 915 | 16.4% | 64.5% |
| Patapsco Middle Ellicott City | 670 | 20.4% | 58.6% |
| Hallie Wells Middle Clarksburg | 931 | 18.5% | 58.5% |
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 Ellicott Mills Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Howard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #15 of 223 | #7 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #7 of 223 ▲ 12 | #4 of 20 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.1% | #16 of 223 ▲ 29 | #5 of 20 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 698 | #140 of 230 | #7 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #107 of 225 | #13 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.2% | #55 of 225 | #13 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.6% | #214 of 227 | #15 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.2% | #21 of 123 | #2 of 10 |
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
698
-91 (-12%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 581
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 698 | 48.5 | 14.4:1 | 15% (102) |
| 2023-24 | 721 | 51.2 | 14.1:1 | 17% (119) |
| 2022-23 | 670 | 52.2 | 12.8:1 | 17% (113) |
| 2020-21 | 789 | 54 | 14.6:1 | 9% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 853 | 59.8 | 14.3:1 | 8% (64) |
| 2015-16 | 808 | 55 | 14.7:1 | 11% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 668 | 47 | 14.2:1 | 9% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 595 | 43 | 13.8:1 | 5% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 581 | 42 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ellicott Mills Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (853 to 698); teachers down 19% (59.8 to 48.5).
About Ellicott Mills Middle
Ellicott Mills Middle is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in Ellicott City, Maryland. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 698 students.
Ellicott Mills Middle is one school in a 77-school district, Howard County Public Schools, which enrolls 57,565 students.
Of every 100 students at Ellicott Mills Middle, about 43 are Asian, the largest group. It is also 28% White, 16% Black, 7% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Howard County is roughly 19% Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 70%.
For every teacher at Ellicott Mills Middle, there are about 14.4 students; the school has 48.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 14.3:1 average for middle schools in Maryland. There are 102 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 15% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Howard County is 27%.
Among Maryland public middle schools, Ellicott Mills Middle outscored 89%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Ellicott Mills Middle's lunch-eligibility share in Maryland is predicted to score 65.6%. Ellicott Mills Middle scores 63.9%, 1.7 points below that line.
The school's county is Howard County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $149,763 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 65% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Public schools in Howard County number 78, with about 57,565 students.
The closest school to Ellicott Mills Middle is Veterans Elementary, located about 0.3 miles away. Ellicott Mills Middle is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: Ellicott Mills Middle ranks 5th of 9 nearby schools, at 63.9% versus a 61.7% average.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 91 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Howard County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
336,328
Census ACS
Median income
$149,763
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
78
57,565 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Howard County Public Schools
- Marriotts Ridge HighHigh · 1,741 students
- Reservoir HighHigh · 1,597 students
- Atholton HighHigh · 1,540 students
- Howard HighHigh · 1,493 students
- Mount Hebron HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Oakland Mills HighHigh · 1,413 students
Other schools in Ellicott City
- Howard HighHigh · 1,493 students
- Mount Hebron HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Centennial HighHigh · 1,377 students
- Veterans ElementaryElementary · 883 students
- Waverly ElementaryElementary · 827 students
- Bellows Spring ElementaryElementary · 806 students
Nearby schools
- Veterans Elementary0.3 mi · 883
- Worthington Elementary0.9 mi · 403
- Northfield Elementary1.2 mi · 764
- Dunloggin Middle1.3 mi · 623
- Howard High1.6 mi · 1,493
- Thunder Hill Elementary1.9 mi · 459
Frequently asked questions
About Ellicott Mills MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Ellicott Mills Middle?
Ellicott Mills Middle enrolls approximately 698 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Ellicott Mills Middle serve?
Ellicott Mills Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Ellicott Mills Middle?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at Ellicott Mills Middle.
How diverse is Ellicott Mills Middle?
Ellicott Mills Middle reports a student body of 28% White, 6% Hispanic, 16% Black, 43% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Ellicott Mills Middle?
Ellicott Mills Middle is overseen by Howard County Public Schools in Howard County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.