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Mount View Middle
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mount View Middle
As a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in Marriottsville, Maryland, Mount View Middle serves 881 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Howard County Public Schools.
Mount View Middle is one of 77 schools operated by Howard County Public Schools, a district that caters to 57,565 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Mount View Middle records that the most-represented group is Asian (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.3:1, putting Mount View Middle higher than the state norm the norm. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Howard County (around 27%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount View Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.9%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Howard County) records that median household earnings sit near $149,763, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Mount View Middle is one of 78 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students).
The closest other public school is Marriotts Ridge High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mount View Middle comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 70.6%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. Mount View Middle's enrollment has climbed 8% since 2018, when it stood at 819 (now 881). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 52% to 31%.
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