Perryville High

Perryville High operates as a low-enrollment high school in Perryville, Maryland, run under Cecil County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 858 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 1,185 students.

Cecil County Public Schools comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 14,853 students; Perryville High is among them.

Demographically, Perryville High logs that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest comes out to 9% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, Perryville High has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at Perryville High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Perryville High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cecil County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,007, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Cecil County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,853 students), of which Perryville High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Perryville Middle, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Perryville High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Perryville High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 41.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Perryville High's enrollment has edged up 12% since 2018, when it stood at 763 (now 858). The White share of enrollment contracted from 82% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Perryville High community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.