Hereford High

Hereford High operates as a medium-sized secondary school in Parkton, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,175 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Across the 177 schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (110,872 students total), Hereford High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hereford High records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Hereford High records 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Baltimore County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hereford High is in the bottom 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 66.9%; Hereford High posts 52.8%, -14.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Baltimore County put the typical household earns roughly $91,768 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Hereford High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hereford Middle, roughly 1.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Hereford High. On composite proficiency, Hereford High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 65.9%.

Hereford High operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Hereford High's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,267 (now 1,175).

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