Mace's Lane Middle School

Mace's Lane Middle School is one of the low-enrollment 6-8 campuss in Cambridge, Maryland, part of Dorchester County Public Schools, with 490 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 36% below the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 764 students.

Within Dorchester County Public Schools, which oversees 11 schools and 4,586 students, Mace's Lane Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Mace's Lane Middle School logs that 59% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 13% White, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Dorchester County as a whole is about 25% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dorchester County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mace's Lane Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 15.9%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dorchester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,839 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Mace's Lane Middle School is one of 13 public schools in Dorchester County (combined enrollment of about 4,586 students).

The closest other public school is Choptank Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mace's Lane Middle School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.9%.

Mace's Lane Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mace's Lane Middle School has shrank 7%, going from 526 students in 2018 to 490 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 22% to 13% across the same window.

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