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Enrollment
415
Middle
DISTRICT 663 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240042000746
Oakland Mills Middle
9540 Kilimanjaro Rd, Columbia, MD 21045 · (410) 313-6937 · Howard County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL415 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 41% of Maryland public middle schools
- B-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
11.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
201 students
DISTRICT 29% · 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 | 142 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 126 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 147 | 35% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
53.9%
MD avg 50.6% . +9.5pp since 2023
Math
25.3%
MD avg 34.8% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.9% | 25.3% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 21.4% |
% 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
36.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Oakland Mills Middle
Oakland Mills Middle's state test result (36.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland Mills Middle this school | 415 | 48.4% | 36.3% |
| Harpers Choice Middle Columbia | 471 | 46.9% | 35.4% |
| Redland Middle Rockville | 562 | 52.1% | 37.1% |
| Lake Elkhorn Middle Columbia | 569 | 49.0% | 29.9% |
| Shady Grove Middle Gaithersburg | 514 | 52.3% | 35.7% |
| Gov. Thomas Johnson Middle Frederick | 573 | 45.2% | 41.5% |
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 Oakland Mills Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Howard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.3% | #108 of 223 | #16 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #103 of 223 ▲ 10 | #17 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #95 of 223 ▲ 38 | #14 of 20 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 415 | #208 of 230 | #20 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #20 of 225 | #2 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.6% | #18 of 225 | #5 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.4% | #125 of 227 | #2 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #45 of 123 | #3 of 10 |
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
415
-64 (-13%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 489
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 415 | 35 | 11.9:1 | 48% (201) |
| 2023-24 | 428 | 39.1 | 10.9:1 | 50% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 475 | 41.5 | 11.4:1 | 51% (241) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 41 | 11.7:1 | 38% (183) |
| 2017-18 | 472 | 42 | 11.2:1 | 43% (202) |
| 2015-16 | 454 | 38 | 11.9:1 | 41% (184) |
| 2010-11 | 393 | 36 | 10.9:1 | 34% (135) |
| 2000-01 | 478 | 40 | 11.9:1 | 22% (106) |
| 1990-91 | 489 | 33 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oakland Mills Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (472 to 415); teachers down 17% (42 to 35).
About Oakland Mills Middle
Located in Columbia, Maryland, Oakland Mills Middle is a small middle school. The student body numbers 415 students, from grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in Maryland is about 764, so this school runs 46% smaller than that.
Howard County Public Schools has 57,565 students in 77 schools, and Oakland Mills Middle is one of those schools.
Enrollment at Oakland Mills Middle is mixed, with Black students the largest group at 33%. It is also 32% Hispanic, 21% White, 8% multiracial, and 6% Asian. For comparison, the population of Howard County is roughly 20% Black. Oakland Mills Middle has a diversity index of 74%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 35 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 11.9:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Maryland is 14.3:1, higher than at this school. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Oakland Mills Middle is 48%. On average, public schools in Howard County report 27%.
The allk12 Grade for Oakland Mills Middle is C+. Compared with Maryland public middle schools, the school scored higher than 41% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Oakland Mills Middle is 9.3 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 36.3% actual, 45.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Maryland.
Within Howard County, median household income is about $149,763, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 65%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Howard County number 78 and enroll about 57,565.
Stevens Forest Elementary is the public school closest to Oakland Mills Middle, about 0.2 miles away. Oakland Mills Middle has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 42.3% on proficiency, and Oakland Mills Middle is below that at 36.3%.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 13%, from 479 to 415.
Questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Howard County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
336,328
Census ACS
Median income
$149,763
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
78
57,565 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Howard County Public Schools
- Marriotts Ridge HighHigh · 1,741 students
- Reservoir HighHigh · 1,597 students
- Atholton HighHigh · 1,540 students
- Howard HighHigh · 1,493 students
- Mount Hebron HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Oakland Mills HighHigh · 1,413 students
Other schools in Columbia
- Atholton HighHigh · 1,540 students
- Oakland Mills HighHigh · 1,413 students
- Long Reach HighHigh · 1,334 students
- Wilde Lake HighHigh · 1,197 students
- Hammond HighHigh · 1,159 students
- Phelps Luck ElementaryElementary · 681 students
Nearby schools
- Stevens Forest Elementary0.2 mi · 314
- Oakland Mills High0.2 mi · 1,413
- Talbott Springs Elementary0.4 mi · 461
- Jeffers Hill Elementary0.9 mi · 406
- Cradlerock Elementary1.1 mi · 453
- Lake Elkhorn Middle1.1 mi · 569
Frequently asked questions
About Oakland Mills MiddleHow many students attend Oakland Mills Middle?
Oakland Mills Middle enrolls approximately 415 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Oakland Mills Middle serve?
Oakland Mills Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Oakland Mills Middle have?
Oakland Mills Middle employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
How diverse is Oakland Mills Middle?
Oakland Mills Middle reports a student body of 21% White, 32% Hispanic, 33% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Oakland Mills Middle in?
Oakland Mills Middle is part of Howard County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.