Marley Middle

Marley Middle operates as a mid-sized middle school in Glen Burnie, Maryland, one of the schools within Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 991 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 764.

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

Looking at the student body, Marley Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% Black, 27% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Anne Arundel County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Marley Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 25.0%, a residual of -6.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Anne Arundel County put the typical household earns roughly $124,911 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Marley Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Marley Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marley Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 18%: 841 students in 2018 compared to 991 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 21% to 35% over that span.

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