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North Point High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About North Point High School
North Point High School, a sizable high school in Waldorf, Maryland, part of Charles County Public Schools, serves 1,960 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 1,185 students each, so North Point High School sits 65% above that benchmark.
Charles County Public Schools comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 28,162 students; North Point High School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, North Point High School logs that 65% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school reports 12% Hispanic, 9% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 49% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, North Point High School has 127 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Charles County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, North Point High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 53.0%; actual is 37.7%, a gap of -15.3 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Charles County) shows that median household earnings sit near $122,816, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. North Point High School is one of 40 public schools in Charles County (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students).
Theodore G. Davis Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Point High School. On composite proficiency, North Point High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Point High School has expanded 12%, going from 1,744 students in 2018 to 1,960 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 21% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.
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