Snow Hill High
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Snow Hill High
Snow Hill High is one of the minimally staffed four-year high schools in Snow Hill, Maryland, overseen by Worcester County Public Schools, with 368 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 69% below the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 1,185 students.
Worcester County Public Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,002 students. Snow Hill High is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Snow Hill High reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Snow Hill High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +6.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Worcester County shows 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), Snow Hill High is one campus in the mix.
Cedar Chapel Special School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Snow Hill High. On composite proficiency, Snow Hill High comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.
Snow Hill High operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 321 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 60% to 53%.
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