Huntingtown High School

As a mid-sized secondary school in Huntingtown, Maryland, Huntingtown High School serves 1,311 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Calvert County Public Schools.

Calvert County Public Schools comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 14,849 students; Huntingtown High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Huntingtown High School shows that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. Compared to Calvert County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Calvert County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Huntingtown High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 62.4%; this one comes in at 48.2%, -14.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Calvert County indicate the typical household earns roughly $133,922 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 2%. Huntingtown High School is one of 25 public schools in Calvert County (combined enrollment of about 14,849 students).

Huntingtown Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Huntingtown High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Huntingtown High School has ticked down 10%, going from 1,464 students in 2018 to 1,311 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 71% across the same window.

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