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Enrollment
840
Middle
DISTRICT 663 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240042001522
Patuxent Valley Middle
9151 Vollmerhausen Rd, Jessup, MD 20794 · (410) 880-5840 · Howard County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL840 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% 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.
- C-Beats 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
13.6:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
367 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 | 254 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 301 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 285 | 34% |
Student demographics
72%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
42.2%
MD avg 50.6% . -4.2pp since 2023
Math
25.2%
MD avg 34.8% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 42 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 down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.2% | 25.2% |
| 2023-24 | 46.4% | 24.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Patuxent Valley Middle
Patuxent Valley Middle's state test result (34.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patuxent Valley Middle this school | 840 | 43.7% | 34.6% |
| Thomas Viaduct Middle Hanover | 758 | 47.5% | 28.6% |
| Murray Hill Middle Laurel | 616 | 37.3% | 42.4% |
| Mayfield Woods Middle Elkridge | 731 | 40.1% | 38.7% |
| Benjamin Banneker Middle Burtonsville | 705 | 51.9% | 27.5% |
| Parkville Middle Baltimore | 900 | 45.1% | 36.1% |
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 Patuxent Valley Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Howard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #120 of 223 | #18 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #104 of 223 ▼ 8 | #18 of 20 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #155 of 223 ▼ 32 | #18 of 20 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 840 | #87 of 230 | #2 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #73 of 225 | #10 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.7% | #38 of 225 | #9 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.7% | #144 of 227 | #5 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +35.9% | #8 of 95 | #1 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
840
+62 (+8%) vs 2020
+64% since 1990-91, when it was 512
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 840 | 62 | 13.6:1 | 44% (367) |
| 2023-24 | 843 | 60 | 14.1:1 | 42% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 767 | 59.8 | 12.8:1 | 44% (337) |
| 2020-21 | 778 | 55 | 14.2:1 | 34% (263) |
| 2017-18 | 618 | 46 | 13.4:1 | 29% (177) |
| 2015-16 | 628 | 48 | 13.1:1 | 34% (213) |
| 2010-11 | 687 | 52 | 13.2:1 | 31% (216) |
| 2000-01 | 701 | 50 | 14.0:1 | 15% (106) |
| 1990-91 | 512 | 35 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Patuxent Valley Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 36% (618 to 840); teachers up 35% (46 to 62).
About Patuxent Valley Middle
Patuxent Valley Middle is a middle school in Jessup, Maryland, and it is part of Howard County Public Schools. It reports enrollment of 840 students in grades 6 through 8.
Patuxent Valley Middle is one of the 77 schools that make up Howard County Public Schools (57,565 students in total).
The student body at Patuxent Valley Middle has no majority group. Black students lead at 44%. The next largest groups are 20% Hispanic, 15% White, 14% Asian, and 6% multiracial. The school's Black share is 24 points above the 20% share among Howard County residents. A diversity index of 72% means there is a 72% chance two randomly chosen students at Patuxent Valley Middle are from different groups.
The school lists 62 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1. The average for middle schools in Maryland is 14.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 367 students, or 44%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Howard County is 27%.
On the allk12 Grade, Patuxent Valley Middle lands at C, ahead of 28% of Maryland public middle schools.
Compared with Maryland schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Patuxent Valley Middle scores 13.8 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 34.6%; the prediction is 48.4%.
Census data for Howard County show median household income comes to about $149,763, about 65% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county has 78 public schools and about 57,565 students.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Bollman Bridge Elementary, is the closest to Patuxent Valley Middle. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Patuxent Valley Middle ranks 9th on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Patuxent Valley Middle enrolled 778 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 840.
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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 Jessup
- Guilford Park HighHigh · 1,218 students
- Bollman Bridge ElementaryElementary · 775 students
- Jessup ElementaryElementary · 646 students
Nearby schools
- Bollman Bridge Elementary0.1 mi · 775
- Forest Ridge Elementary1.0 mi · 659
- Guilford Park High1.2 mi · 1,218
- Guilford Elementary1.6 mi · 437
- Murray Hill Middle1.6 mi · 616
- Gorman Crossing Elementary1.7 mi · 750
Frequently asked questions
About Patuxent Valley MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Patuxent Valley Middle?
Patuxent Valley Middle enrolls approximately 840 students in grades 06-08.
Is Patuxent Valley Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Patuxent Valley Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Patuxent Valley Middle?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at Patuxent Valley Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Patuxent Valley Middle?
At Patuxent Valley Middle, the student body is approximately 15% White, 20% Hispanic, 44% Black, 14% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Patuxent Valley Middle public or private?
Patuxent Valley Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Howard County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.