MacArthur Middle

MacArthur Middle operates as a mid-tier middle school in Fort Meade, Maryland, part of Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 992 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 30% above the state mean of about 764.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 85,029 students; MacArthur Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MacArthur Middle logs that Black students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 16% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, MacArthur Middle reports 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, MacArthur Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.1%; this one comes in at 26.2%, -15.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Anne Arundel County indicate median household income runs about $124,911, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Anne Arundel County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), of which MacArthur Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pershing Hill Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MacArthur Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

MacArthur Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MacArthur Middle has declined 4%, going from 1,037 students in 2018 to 992 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 53% to 59% across the same window.

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