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Which teacher or staff member at Oakdale Middle deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
1,085
Middle
DISTRICT 788 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREDERICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240033001163
Oakdale Middle
5810 Oakdale School Road, Ijamsville, MD 21754 · (227) 203-2450 · Frederick County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,085 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Maryland public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
171 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 355 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 353 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 377 | 35% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
70.7%
MD avg 50.6% . +9.1pp since 2023
Math
40.6%
MD avg 34.8% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.7% | 40.6% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 44.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Oakdale Middle
Oakdale Middle's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakdale Middle this school | 1,085 | 15.8% | 54.3% |
| Ridgely Middle Lutherville | 1,039 | 20.2% | 59.2% |
| North Bethesda Middle Bethesda | 1,224 | 15.9% | 63.7% |
| Windsor Knolls Middle Ijamsville | 812 | 13.4% | 59.4% |
| Rosa M. Parks Middle Olney | 863 | 16.5% | 57.6% |
| Thomas W. Pyle Middle Bethesda | 1,259 | 6.4% | 75.6% |
Matched among Maryland middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Oakdale Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Frederick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #43 of 223 | #4 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #45 of 223 ▼ 19 | #4 of 13 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #45 of 223 ▲ 18 | #4 of 13 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,085 | #25 of 230 | #2 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #218 of 225 | #12 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.7% | #101 of 225 | #8 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.8% | #213 of 227 | #12 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +54.1% | #2 of 95 | #2 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,085
+186 (+21%) vs 2020
+73% since 2010-11, when it was 627
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,085 | 61 | 17.8:1 | 16% (171) |
| 2023-24 | 1,069 | 66 | 16.2:1 | 13% (134) |
| 2022-23 | 1,057 | 56.5 | 18.7:1 | 11% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 899 | 51 | 17.6:1 | 9% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 704 | 39.5 | 17.8:1 | 8% (56) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 36 | 17.8:1 | 7% (45) |
| 2010-11 | 627 | 41 | 15.3:1 | 7% (47) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oakdale Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 54% (704 to 1,085); teachers up 55% (39.5 to 61).
About Oakdale Middle
As a mid-sized middle school, Oakdale Middle serves students in Ijamsville, Maryland. In all, 1,085 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 42% above the 764-student average for middle schools in Maryland.
Besides Oakdale Middle, Frederick County Public Schools runs 66 other schools. The district enrolls 48,054 students.
More than half of the students at Oakdale Middle are White (58%). Beyond that, enrollment is 15% Asian, 12% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. In Frederick County overall, about 68% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Oakdale Middle scores 62%.
On staff are 61 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.8:1. Middle schools in Maryland average 14.3:1, 3.5 fewer students per teacher than here. Oakdale Middle has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 16%. For comparison, public schools in Frederick County average 37%.
Oakdale Middle holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 63% of Maryland public middle schools.
Compared with Maryland schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Oakdale Middle's results are 10.6 points below predicted: 54.3% against 64.9%.
In Frederick County, median household income comes to about $122,002, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 69, with about 48,054 students.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Oakdale Elementary, is the closest to Oakdale Middle. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Oakdale Middle. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Oakdale Middle ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Oakdale Middle in the Suburb: Mid-size locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 1,085, from 899 in 2020-21.
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Frederick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
287,048
Census ACS
Median income
$122,002
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
69
48,054 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Frederick County Public Schools
- Gov. Thomas Johnson HighHigh · 2,066 students
- Urbana HighHigh · 1,989 students
- Frederick HighHigh · 1,821 students
- Tuscarora HighHigh · 1,735 students
- Oakdale HighHigh · 1,702 students
- Linganore HighHigh · 1,647 students
Other schools in Ijamsville
- Urbana HighHigh · 1,989 students
- Oakdale HighHigh · 1,702 students
- Oakdale ElementaryElementary · 1,167 students
- Urbana MiddleMiddle · 1,090 students
- Windsor Knolls MiddleMiddle · 812 students
Other Oakdale Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Oakdale Middle. Oakdale Middle is the largest of the 4.
- OAKDALE MIDDLE SCHOOLROGERS, AR · 809 students
- Oakdale Middle SchoolMedford, OR · 745 students
- Oakdale Middle SchoolOakdale, LA · 340 students
Nearby schools
- Oakdale Elementary0.2 mi · 1,167
- Oakdale High0.5 mi · 1,702
- Deer Crossing Elementary1.6 mi · 528
- Spring Ridge Elementary1.8 mi · 605
- New Market Middle2.3 mi · 676
- New Market Elementary2.4 mi · 571
Frequently asked questions
About Oakdale MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Oakdale Middle?
Oakdale Middle enrolls approximately 1,085 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Oakdale Middle serve?
Oakdale Middle serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Oakdale Middle?
Approximately 17.8:1 students per teacher at Oakdale Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oakdale Middle?
At Oakdale Middle, the student body is approximately 58% White, 10% Hispanic, 12% Black, 15% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Oakdale Middle public or private?
Oakdale Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Frederick County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.