Meade High

Students in Ft Meade, Maryland, attend Meade High, a high-enrollment high school. Total enrollment is 2,045 students, and the grades served are 9 through 12. That is 73% bigger than the average of about 1,185 students for high schools in Maryland.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools oversees Meade High and 124 other schools, with 85,029 students in total.

The student body at Meade High has no majority group. Black students lead at 47%. Other groups make up 32% Hispanic, 10% White, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.

The student-to-teacher ratio at Meade High is 15.8:1, based on 129.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 15.3:1 average for high schools in Maryland. Lunch program data show 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Anne Arundel County average 42%.

Schools in Maryland with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 42.8%. Meade High scores 32.2%.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Anne Arundel County show that the median household earns about $124,911 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Anne Arundel County, 129 public schools serve about 85,074 students.

Meade High's nearest public school is Meade Middle (about 0.2 miles). Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Meade High ranks 4th in a group of 8 nearby schools.

Meade High has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.

Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 2,087 in 2020-21, 2,045 in 2024-25.

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