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Fallston Middle School
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MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)BeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fallston Middle School
As a reasonably sized intermediate school in Fallston, Maryland, Fallston Middle School hosts 1,068 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Harford County Public Schools. That puts it 40% bigger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 764 students.
Harford County Public Schools runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 37,771 students. Fallston Middle School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Fallston Middle School shows that nearly all students (84%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Harford County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.3:1, putting Fallston Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 12% of students at Fallston Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harford County (around 39%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, Fallston Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of -3.4 points.
In the area at large, census data for Harford County shows the typical household earns roughly $112,265 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Fallston Middle School is one of 55 public schools in Harford County (combined enrollment of about 37,771 students).
Fallston High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fallston Middle School. On composite proficiency, Fallston Middle School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.2%.
Fallston Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fallston Middle School has expanded 15%, going from 932 students in 2018 to 1,068 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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