Hammond High

Hammond High is a high school of average-sized scale in Columbia, Maryland, part of Howard County Public Schools, serveing 1,159 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within Howard County Public Schools, which oversees 77 schools and 57,565 students, Hammond High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hammond High lists that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 21% White, 17% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Hammond High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Howard County's rate of about 27%.

With demographic context factored in, Hammond High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.1%; this one delivers 42.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Howard County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $149,763 per year, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Howard County runs 78 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students), of which Hammond High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Atholton Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hammond High comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hammond High has declined 11%, going from 1,300 students in 2018 to 1,159 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 26% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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