Folly Quarter Middle

As an average-sized middle school in Ellicott City, Maryland, Folly Quarter Middle instructs 682 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Howard County Public Schools.

Howard County Public Schools comprises 77 schools with combined enrollment of 57,565 students; Folly Quarter Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Folly Quarter Middle shows that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Asian, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. Compared to Howard County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Howard County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Folly Quarter Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 75.2%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Howard County) reports that median household income runs about $149,763, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Howard County's 78 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students), Folly Quarter Middle is one campus in the mix.

Triadelphia Ridge Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Folly Quarter Middle comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 73.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Folly Quarter Middle has rose 3%, going from 663 students in 2018 to 682 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 59% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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