Glen Burnie High

Glen Burnie High operates as a large high school in Glen Burnie, Maryland, overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 2,226 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,185 students per school, that is 88% bigger than typical.

Within Anne Arundel County Public Schools, which oversees 125 schools and 85,029 students, Glen Burnie High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Glen Burnie High reports that 31% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 29% White, 29% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 134 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Anne Arundel County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Glen Burnie High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 31.2%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Anne Arundel County shows median household income runs about $124,911, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Glen Burnie High is one of 129 public schools in Anne Arundel County (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students).

Nearest neighbor: Glendale Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glen Burnie High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 30.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 2,020 students in 2018 compared to 2,226 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 29% across the same window.

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