New Town High

New Town High is one of the mid-tier four-year high schools in Owings Mills, Maryland, overseen by Baltimore County Public Schools, with 1,414 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

New Town High is one of 177 schools operated by Baltimore County Public Schools, a district that serves 110,872 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, New Town High reports that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at New Town High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), New Town High is in the bottom 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.5%; New Town High posts 26.1%, -18.3 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Baltimore County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $91,768 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Baltimore County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), of which New Town High is one.

New Town Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Town High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), New Town High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. New Town High's enrollment has climbed 33% since 2018, when it stood at 1,064 (now 1,414). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

On allk12, members of the New Town High community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.