Linganore High

Linganore High operates as an average-sized secondary school in Frederick, Maryland, one of the schools within Frederick County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,647 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,185 students per school, that is 39% bigger than typical.

Frederick County Public Schools comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 48,054 students; Linganore High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Linganore High reports that 71% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. Compared to Frederick County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Linganore High has 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Linganore High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 17% of students at Linganore High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Frederick County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Linganore High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 64.3%; this one comes in at 50.8%, -13.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Frederick County) shows that median household income runs about $122,002, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Frederick County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,054 students), Linganore High is one campus in the mix.

Blue Heron Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Linganore High. On composite proficiency, Linganore High comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 24%: 1,324 students in 2018 compared to 1,647 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.