Margaret Brent Middle

Margaret Brent Middle is one of the reasonably sized junior highs in Mechanicsville, Maryland, one of the schools within St. Mary's County Public Schools, with 878 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

St. Mary's County Public Schools comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 16,905 students; Margaret Brent Middle is among them.

Demographically, Margaret Brent Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Margaret Brent Middle records 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Margaret Brent Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Margaret Brent Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for St. Mary's County put median household income runs about $119,446, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, St. Mary's County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,905 students), of which Margaret Brent Middle is one.

Chopticon High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Margaret Brent Middle. On composite proficiency, Margaret Brent Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 993 students in 2018 compared to 878 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 79% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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