Meade Middle

Meade Middle is a middle-grades school of reasonably sized scale in Fort Meade, Maryland, operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, caters to 697 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 125 schools in Anne Arundel County Public Schools (85,029 students total), Meade Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Meade Middle logs that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at Meade Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Anne Arundel County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Meade Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 22.3%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Anne Arundel County put median household earnings sit near $124,911, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Anne Arundel County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), Meade Middle is one campus in the mix.

Meade High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meade Middle. On composite proficiency, Meade Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meade Middle has grew 12%, going from 620 students in 2018 to 697 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Meade Middle typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.