Mattawoman Middle School

Set in Waldorf, Maryland, Mattawoman Middle School is a reasonably sized intermediate school, part of Charles County Public Schools. It hosts 862 students across grades 6 through 8.

Mattawoman Middle School is one of 38 schools operated by Charles County Public Schools, a district that teaches 28,162 students overall.

On demographics, Mattawoman Middle School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% White. By comparison, Charles County as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Mattawoman Middle School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at Mattawoman Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Mattawoman Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.2%; Mattawoman Middle School posts 25.6%, -16.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Charles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $122,816 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Mattawoman Middle School is one of 40 public schools in Charles County (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students).

The closest other public school is Berry Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mattawoman Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Mattawoman Middle School's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 991 (now 862). Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 14% across the same window.

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