Fruitland Intermediate

Fruitland Intermediate, a low-enrollment primary school in Fruitland, Maryland, overseen by Wicomico County Public Schools, instructs 343 students, covering grades 3 through 5. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Across the 25 schools in Wicomico County Public Schools (15,582 students total), Fruitland Intermediate accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Fruitland Intermediate logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Fruitland Intermediate lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Fruitland Intermediate tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Fruitland Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.4%; this one delivers 41.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wicomico County) logs that median household income runs about $76,210, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Fruitland Intermediate is one of 25 public schools in Wicomico County (combined enrollment of about 15,582 students).

Nearest neighbor: Fruitland Primary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fruitland Intermediate. On composite proficiency, Fruitland Intermediate comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 343 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 55% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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