Pocomoke Middle

Pocomoke Middle is one of the modestly sized 6-8 campuss in Pocomoke City, Maryland, one of the schools within Worcester County Public Schools, with 465 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 8. That puts it 39% below the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 764 students.

Pocomoke Middle is one of 13 schools operated by Worcester County Public Schools, a district that instructs 7,002 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Pocomoke Middle records that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 39% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Worcester County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Worcester County (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Pocomoke Middle ranks in the top 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.8%; Pocomoke Middle posts 56.5%, +24.6 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Worcester County reports that median household earnings sit near $81,745, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Worcester County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,002 students), Pocomoke Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pocomoke Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pocomoke Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 24%: 374 students in 2018 compared to 465 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.5:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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