Oakland Mills Middle

Set in Columbia, Maryland, Oakland Mills Middle is a low-enrollment middle-grades school, one of the schools within Howard County Public Schools. It hosts 415 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 46% smaller than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 764 students.

Howard County Public Schools runs 77 schools in total, collectively educating 57,565 students. Oakland Mills Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Oakland Mills Middle reports that the most-represented group is Black (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 21% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at Oakland Mills Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Howard County's rate of about 27%.

With demographic context factored in, Oakland Mills Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.6%; this one delivers 36.3%.

Across the wider county, Howard County reports that median household income runs about $149,763, roughly 65% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Oakland Mills Middle is one of 78 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students).

Nearest neighbor: Stevens Forest Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oakland Mills Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oakland Mills Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.3%.

Oakland Mills Middle operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 472 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 21% to 32%.

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